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Content Sebastin Ramrez tiangolo I saw a job post the other day. It required 4 years of experience in FastAPI. I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5 years of experience since I created that thing. Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience skill level". C

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Content weds IMPORT OS CURPATH OS.GETCHD() IGNORE SET SET(" COUNT SOURCELINES.PY" INIT YEAH, HE'S A PARSER-TONGUE. DON'T KNOW HARRY SPOKE PYTHON

Ancient wisdom meets modern code reviews. The sage speaks truth: your reluctance to follow DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) isn't laziness—it's because you haven't figured out the right abstraction yet. Copy-pasting code three times? That's just being cautious. Prematurely abstracting before you understand the pattern? That's how you end up with a 47-parameter utility function that nobody understands and everyone's afraid to touch. Sometimes repetition is honest work until the universe reveals what actually belongs together. KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) beats a bad abstraction every single time.

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