> “craftsmanship cosplay” Nice slap down. Aaaa. I’d like to see stats over the comments—if management role, job history, age, income, education—and I’d expect

> “craftsmanship cosplay” Nice slap down. Aaaa. I’d like to see stats over the comments—if management role, job history, age, income, education—and I’d expect opinions would be revealed as archetypical. In other words, it says more about the speaker than it says about successful software development. Clearly the OP is talking about what works for them mentally—focus, creativity. It’s a mistake for anyone to read a post like this and think of it (and the criticism) as prescriptive. Emulating any of the patterns would have the same result of cargo cult behavior.