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-**This is an important _cognitive_ principle**. And the principle claims that you can only create safe, compatible API responses if you treat those as a separate, independently goverened _thing_ -- hence the 'V' in MVC, in Loco.
+**This is an important _cognitive_ principle**. And the principle claims that you can only create safe, compatible API responses if you treat those as a separate, independently governed _thing_ -- hence the 'V' in MVC, in Loco.
 
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 Models in Loco carry the same semantics as in Rails: <b>fat models, slim controllers</b>. This means that every time you want to build something -- <em>you reach out to a model</em>.