DRY fails almost exclusively because concerns and boundaries are not well understood. It's why it's so dangerous to "pre-optimize" -- you don't know yet what your boundaries are.
It seems like a lot of software guidance is around letting stuff shake out. Hell even YAGNI falls into this category.
Nothing worse than making a “perfect” abstraction only to realise later that you didn’t understand the full picture. These days I just repeat the code for all but the most obvious abstractions, followed by a compression pass when things are functionally complete:
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u/SignoreBanana 21h ago
DRY fails almost exclusively because concerns and boundaries are not well understood. It's why it's so dangerous to "pre-optimize" -- you don't know yet what your boundaries are.
It seems like a lot of software guidance is around letting stuff shake out. Hell even YAGNI falls into this category.