The workspace always has the solution inside

The workspace includes a deliberately bad solution. The task is to improve the code employing the programming principle of DRY (Don't Repeath Yourself) using a loop to repeat 5 lines of code much more clean and efficiently.

I checked a clean workspace, and it does in fact contain the bad code. If you're seeing the actual solution, is it possible you worked on the problem earlier? Your previous workspace work is saved by default.

I think what he meant is that sometimes the ACTUAL solution is already in the workspaces. I've noticed it several times myself in other workspaces, despite not working on them before. It appears to be different for everyone though, as for this challenge, the code is the original, non-DRY start.