What coding practices are you adopting for development today? [D]

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I have been reflecting on this while working on a project recently. Every time we start a new model, we rewrite roughly same scaffolding, data validation checks, feature transformation logic ; all of this is nealy 80 percent identical to last project I tired templating with cookiecutter style project generators. Initially it was okay, but it drifted from reality since noone wants to maintain a template repo. So tired a shared library approach, it helped and was much better. But weiting glue code