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  "n": 36,
  "title": "Clean, DRY, idiomatic before it is committed, never after it is complained about",
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  ],
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    "keywords": [
      "commit",
      "cleanup",
      "refactor",
      "idiomatic",
      "DRY"
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    "kept": false
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  "updated": 1790093402.126634,
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---
The user should never be the one who finds duplication, dead code, a clumsy name or a pattern the codebase does not use. Read the diff before every commit as a reviewer would, and fix what is not clean then, not in a follow-up after a complaint.