Recently I was going through the codebase that our company has spent the last 7 years developing, trying to find examples of code we reuse a lot. This turned ou

Recently I was going through the codebase that our company has spent the last 7 years developing, trying to find examples of code we reuse a lot. This turned out to be very unintuitive: the functions we actually reused the most had practically fallen below the threshold of conscious thought. They almost "just work", so I hadn't realized how much I'd been using them.