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Duplication vs wrong abstraction

You see the same 6-line block in two unrelated modules. A colleague proposes extracting a shared helper. What guidance fits best?
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  1. 1Prefer a little duplication over coupling unrelated modules to a forced shared abstraction
  2. 2Always deduplicate immediately and extract the shared helper regardless of module cohesion
  3. 3Copy the same six-line block a third time into a local utility to avoid any shared coupling
  4. 4Move the duplicated block into a global utils package that every module in the system imports
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