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  **DRY principles** — _Don't Repeat Yourself_: the software-design guideline
  that every piece of knowledge or logic in a system should exist in **one
  place**, rather than being duplicated across multiple locations, so it only
  has to be maintained once.
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# \*\*DRY principles\*\*

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## Definition

**DRY principles** — _Don't Repeat Yourself_: the software-design guideline that every piece of knowledge or logic in a system should exist in **one place**, rather than being duplicated across multiple locations, so it only has to be maintained once.

## About this entry in this channel's material (**DRY principles** — _dry-principles-9f5e577e19b2_)In general usage, **DRY** stands for _Don't Repeat Yourself_: keep every piece of knowledge in a system in **one place**, rather than duplicating it. When you find yourself copying the same logic, text, or configuration into multiple spots, the DRY principle says to consolidate it so there is a single source of truth to maintain.This entry is grounded in the channel's captured material, which features **Nat Eliason** discussing how he built working apps in a day with **Cursor's agent mode** and pre-sold a **$200,000 course in a week**. The captured material does not spell out the DRY principles in detail, so this entry provides only the general, self-contained meaning of the term and does not expand it into techniques or claims the source does not support. If you explore the related episode, the term can serve as background vocabulary for thinking about writing maintainable code with AI coding tools — but the specifics are left to the standard definition above.- **DRY** = _Don't Repeat Yourself_: keep knowledge in **one place**, not duplicated. - The channel's captured material does not elaborate on the term beyond its appearance alongside content about building apps with Cursor's agent mode. - Treat this as background vocabulary; the definition above is the self-contained meaning.