I think DRY is a goal for the code and semantic compression (as described in the post) is a path towards that goal. In Muratori's world they're following best

I think DRY is a goal for the code and semantic compression (as described in the post) is a path towards that goal. In Muratori's world they're following best practices like YAGNI and DRY and that allows you to refactor code at the right time