This has been one of the hardest fought lessons I’ve learned it my programming career, but also one of the most fruitful. I am to make my abstractions too late

This has been one of the hardest fought lessons I’ve learned it my programming career, but also one of the most fruitful. I am to make my abstractions too late rather than too early. My rule of thumb tends to me copy things six to seven times before you try to build an abstraction for it.