Some code. E.g. most of my code was barely read by anyone, as most of it was utilitary or mvp or niche/local enough to never see big light. And when from time to time I read other code, e.g. on github, in projects I’m occasionally interested in, there’s barely anything resembling these high class advices. FOSS with large reach - yeah. But a library that you found for a specific hardware is “just code”. And to be honest, the difference between the two is not that big. Any decent programmer navigates both almost equally fast. As someone who modified Lua internals (typical example [1]) for employer’s needs I can say that I prefer Lua style to ceremony on top of ceremony, to multiparagraph explanations of what should be obvious to a competent developer, and to hundreds of extracted functions for the sole reason of clean-ish scopes or whatever.

But still I’ve done what people advised, for many years. And know what? It never paid back. I’m sort of tired to keep that secret and nod to this obvious overgeneralization and a blanket idea. Pretty sure I’m not alone.

[1] https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/6baee9ef9d5657ab582c8a4b9f88...