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YOUR FOLDER STRUCTURE HAS TWO JOBS, BUT ONLY DOES ONE

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Folder structures must support two different tasks: helping people find existing files and giving them a consistent rule for placing new ones. Role-based taxonomies improve navigation but create fuzzy boundaries, while layer-based structures make classification deterministic and prevent placement mistakes from compounding as a codebase grows.