Yeah, I think this is a real problem for developers. Nobody gets into software development without a pretty high pain tolerance. I think the tricks here are a)

Yeah, I think this is a real problem for developers. Nobody gets into software development without a pretty high pain tolerance. I think the tricks here are a) developing a sensitivity to particular kinds of pain (e.g., duplication), and b) accepting that you'll have to push through a different sort of discomfort (e.g., refactoring toward DRY code) to avoid it in the long term.