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Fair, it’s not literally useless, it does help with typos and autocomplete. But you can get so much more with just 10% extra care in how you design your interfaces that the lazy approach feels almost useless by comparison.

It’s similar to the problems you run into by writing the wrong kind of tests – the ones that essentially just duplicate your code instead of validating input/output at boundaries.




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