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    Feyerabend's argument was for a diversity of approaches and avoiding authoritarian imposition of set methods or regularisation of individual creativity. Another way of putting it is that Feyerabend gives licence to do whatever the next guy isn't doing and do whatever your masters don't want you to do. The danger is when all programmers are in fact using the same method - a scatty, unsystematic, uninformed one - and are all doing the same as one another, which is the very condition which Feyerabend was arguing against! Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 14:32
  • @Steve Ahh, ya that makes a lot sense. I didn't think about how this itself is just one of many methods in software development. There's still a need for more focused and "informed", as you put it, methods which highlight things we might not learn from jumping around systems. Thanks for the feedback! I'm still reading Against Method so I'm probably misapplying it a bit XD Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 14:44