Dan Luu on Nostr: I'm sure there are counterexamples, but when I think about the things that have had ...

I'm sure there are counterexamples, but when I think about the things that have had legions of people selling them, like TDD, etc., these things haven't taken the world by storm in the same way.

Appealing to elitism seems to be another "success smell". A lot of old practices that got replaced by more effective ones appealed to elitism and lost. And new practices that appealed to elitism also haven't succeeded in the same way that CI, automated testing, etc., have.