Jim Koppel poses a classic engineering problem: importing just one function from a bloated file
jimmykoppel · x · 2026-10-18
Jim Koppel shares that an engineer on his team needed one function from a file in another project — but importing that file would drag in everything else in it too. He poses "What could they do?" alongside a video, teasing a solution to this common dependency-isolation and module-boundary pain point.
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