Not qualified to speak on this myself, but I asked a similar question to a friend and he said something like: Part of good software development is knowing wher

Not qualified to speak on this myself, but I asked a similar question to a friend and he said something like: Part of good software development is knowing where and when to create abstractions. Category theory has a collection of interesting and very general abstractions - if you can spot these patterns in your software development then they will be good candidates for abstraction/generalisation