If you find yourself in this situation, resist being driven by sunk costs. When dealing with the wrong abstraction, the fastest way forward is back . Do the following:

1. Re-introduce duplication by inlining the abstracted code back into every caller.


2. Within each caller, use the parameters being passed to determine the subset of the inlined code that

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An issue I tend to see in my travels through the world of software engineering is over-engineering. Shocking, I know. I’m not the first developer to point this out, nor will I be the last.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.