My first impulse is this is stupid. It means your tools aren't smart enough. Use an IDE, use aigrep, some tool that knows what to look for. A better title wou

My first impulse is this is stupid. It means your tools aren't smart enough. Use an IDE, use aigrep, some tool that knows what to look for. A better title would be "Don't use a fastening device if it fails the hammer test." Are you don't use a tool that generates SetFunkyColumnName from funky_column_name data spec ? Or "I can't find the click handler in the .html, quit using jQuery" ? I have been at the bottom of steep learning curves multiple times where I couldn't figure out where stuff was coming from. In most cases I got over it Use the appropriate tools that get the job done and make you and your team productive. Tools and ideas evolve at different rates. Not all tools or ideas are implemented properly the first time, and not all tools or ideas are necessarily good/useful. But we'll never get any further if we don't try...