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Hi HN, I think it's safe to say that the majority of developers don't give a second thought to writing code with I/O tangled in business logic. It's all too common to see code like: const user = findUser(email); if (!user) await saveUser(user); Now, you may ask: what's the big deal? When we write code like this, two things happen: 1. It gets harder to debug production bugs. Unless you have the exact same database and remote API services to connect to, you may fail to reproduce the bug. 2. You ha

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