I agree with the author to the extent that you should keep the target audience in mind when writing code. I disagree that it means not using best practices. If

I agree with the author to the extent that you should keep the target audience in mind when writing code. I disagree that it means not using best practices. If you spend 30 minutes to an hour explaining objects or other conventions to your academic colleagues you'll all be better off when reading and writing code. It also sounds like an issue of developers being overly clever in general. Clever does not mean elegant and in my experience cleverness usually backfires for the reasons listed in the article. Elegance makes everything look easy.