How about improving wisdom? Following the guidance in the article, despite its best efforts, will lead to lots of code. Code that will be replaced by a wiser coder in less time.
> Following the guidance in the article, despite its best efforts, will lead to lots of code.
I don't think that's necessary the case. My goal in being productive is to produce the biggest wins in the least amount of time possible. In many cases you do that by coming up with a better design and writing less code to begin with.
In fact, I wrote another post[0] on how I approach becoming a better programmer. The two key principles I use are learning how to solve existing problems faster and learning to solve new problems.
