<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@baldur" class="u-url mention">@<span>baldur</span></a></span> Baldur is really right that most issues in software engineering are horribly science-free. For any nontrivial “best practice”, an experiment to test it would require two teams, doing nontrivial work, approaching the same problem with practices that are closely equivalent except for the one under study. Which is probably never gonna happen.</p>