These are pretty interesting talks but they very much feel like just random talks from any conference? Interesting but I have no way to apply them if I wasn't w

These are pretty interesting talks but they very much feel like just random talks from any conference? Interesting but I have no way to apply them if I wasn't writing a tool for developers. edit: On another level I am put off by their tendency to describe things such as "teaching undergraduates" or "debugging problems" as algorithms. I understand that you can't really analyze unclear, hazy things without putting them down in clear terms, but something in me doesn't really accept that you _can_ do this without losing so much detail and information as to make your conclusion useless. They do point out that SWE often think of studies this way: > Most software developers in industry have never heard of any findings more recent than The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (which few of them ever actually read) and routinely dismiss studies as “not statistically significant,” even when those studies are carefully done and directly relevant to their work.