In fact, there’s very little evidence about pretty much anything we believe to be true in software development.
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@stilkov Then we need to do some better research and investigation before we start handing down advice.
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@tedneward So I guess we better stop doing that Agile thing, or OO, or FP, stop using patterns, don’t do this SOLID stuff, …

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@stilkov You don't have any evidence that not doing these things will help either. So like @tedneward said, go do (or fund) some research.
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@robsmallshire @tedneward More experiments would be great, I agree. I’m just not sure there can be many meaningful ones.
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@stilkov Well, honestly, does using OO, FP, or Agile guarantee success? Then I won't believe that they're what causes success.
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@stilkov The entire industry seems to have "causation" and "correlation" totally and entirely confused.
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@stilkov @tedneward quite a lot of that might not be the worst idea ;)
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@stilkov @tedneward No idea if I got context right, but *practices* are helpful, saying some just *are* 10x devs, not how/why is the prob