The Problem: Hidden Code Duplication Every codebase accumulates copy-paste clones. They start innocently — "I'll just duplicate this function and tweak it" — but over months they compound into a maintenance tax. When a bug is fixed in one copy, the other 5 copies stay broken.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/ankit_meena_57c07342b6bc5/pychase-ast-powered-duplicate-code-detection-for-python-3408)

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