I think the experimentation helps identify the piece of code to stare at. Some people are just choosing staring at an earlier point than you are. As with anyth

I think the experimentation helps identify the piece of code to stare at. Some people are just choosing staring at an earlier point than you are. As with anything, I think you can swing too far. I had one junior developer under me who would constantly try different things, but this person was not an experimenter. There was no hypothesis being tested or reasonable mental model that they were working against. It was just a painful-to-watch spew of ill-formed and poorly thought out code of questionable syntax. I tend to fall more on the experimenter side of things, but sometimes code staring is exactly the right approach.