This is a weird way of twisting their words. They didn't "find" the phrase themselves, as in coming up with the words, rather they found that in their experienc

This is a weird way of twisting their words. They didn't "find" the phrase themselves, as in coming up with the words, rather they found that in their experience, some programmers behave according to said phrase. You are parsing the word "find" in the incorrect way in this situation.