> which creates a sense that the old timers are just dogmatic ideologues who don't have good reasons for asking for certain changes. I realized this when I once

> which creates a sense that the old timers are just dogmatic ideologues who don't have good reasons for asking for certain changes. I realized this when I once had a manager point out to me that I was coming across as some type of esoteric "purist" when I spoke of "clean code. This is something that I struggle with a lot with the mainstream engineering literature currently available that has a lot of empiricism packaged with opinions, especially folks who worked only in some specific setups in terms of demographics (e.g. SF and USA generally) and resources (e.g. FAANG companies, Mid-Caps, companies with infinite amount of money pre-2021). Where do you folks get scientific or empirically reliable information about practices and methods in Tech Engineering?