It is the same old story, later repeated with agile manifesto, REST, and so on. They became misunderstood and abused by enough people that the terms stopped me

It is the same old story, later repeated with agile manifesto, REST, and so on. They became misunderstood and abused by enough people that the terms stopped meaning anything useful in public space. When I hear a company say "we're Agile, we are doing REST" etc. I just roll my eyes and think to myself: unlikely. Over the years I figured out the right way to use all of these things: as resources with solutions to frequent problems. So no, I will not preach GoF or DDD or CQRS or Agile or REST or anything else, but I will make sure I understood each one very well on many levels and apply the lessons to my projects.