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Don't make Clean Code harder to maintain, use the Rule of Three
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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Patterns and principles are guidelines, not rules. You don't want to just apply them blindly.
You need to balance principles. Over-applying the DRY principle can lead to more complex logic that's harder to understand than if you just wrote code in-line.