Yeah, "don't overdo X" is always true by definition. That is what "overdo" means. Likewise "don't be an X zealot" is always true by definition (based on how we

Yeah, "don't overdo X" is always true by definition. That is what "overdo" means. Likewise "don't be an X zealot" is always true by definition (based on how we use the term zealot in modern English). That said, despite the clickbait title, I think these sorts of posts make a valid point because people often do in fact take heuristics like DRY to mean "never repeat any code under any circumstances and any code repetition is per se bad."