You Might Not Need an Abstraction Published 2026-02-05, About 14 minute read. One of my all-time favorite Youtubers MPJ used to often repeat these words of wisdom: The new engineer copies and pastes. The mid-level engineer makes abstractions. The experienced engineer gets s*** done. - MPJ (paraphrased) The thrust of his saying was that there is often a common path in the course of a software…