You are describing "bad" programmers, and clearly there are no shortage of those. But the advice in the post doesn't make bad programmers into good programmers

You are describing "bad" programmers, and clearly there are no shortage of those. But the advice in the post doesn't make bad programmers into good programmers - it just makes bad programmers "try to be clever" - which frankly doesn't end well. Do some of these techniques help bad programmers _become_ good programmers? Sometimes yes. But then it should come with the caveat never to do it in "real" code. It might be a good learning tool, but it's a terrible production tool.