Duplicating logic is no longer painful, while abstractions still are.

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• Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction, so code should not be made reusable before there are real examples of what the reuse has to do. CMCasey Muratori28 May 2014similar wording
• Inference was never going to be the easy, cheap half of AI, because inference is thinking, and thinking is far harder than reading. JHJensen Huang23 Mar 2026similar wording
• You can now generate ten thousand variants of a function faster than you could write it once, and that economics pushes software towards replacement rather than repair. CMCharity Majors12 Aug 2026similar wording
• When an abstraction turns out to be wrong, the fastest way forward is to inline it back into every caller and let the duplication show what the right one is. SMSandi Metz20 Jan 2016similar wording
• Higher-level abstractions do not abolish low-level knowledge; they concentrate it in the smaller group of people who build the abstractions. MKMartin Kleppmann22 Apr 2026similar wording

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