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locknitpicker 89 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (201...

> If you haven't figured out a good abstraction at 5-100 customers, God help you.

This blend of opinion is very naive. Every single project is a business requirement away from having the wrong abstraction in place.

https://xkcd.com/1425/

tomjakubowski 89 days ago | [–]

Reminds me of the Taskmaster interview of Sam Campbell, where (Little) Alex Horne is changing the requirements on his portrait up to the last second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0btgXY_D0

auggierose 89 days ago | [–]

Good one. See, we did make some serious progress, all you AI haters.

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