the.com/duplication
The universe's favorite shortcut: why write new code when you can copy-paste and pray.
means The act of making a copy or repeated version of something that already exists, intentionally or carelessly.
from From Latin duplicare, 'to double,' built from duo ('two') plus plicare ('to fold'). Picture a piece of cloth folded over onto itself — that's the root image: not creation, just folding reality over so it lands twice.
- biology version
- gene duplication is evolution's rough draft button
- software smell
- copy-pasted code rots in two places at once
- dna origin
- most new genes start as accidental duplicates
- fix name
- refactoring exists mainly to undo this habit