[jaredklewis]

I’ve read dozens of them and find them unconvincing for the reasons outlined. If you want a more specific critique, link a paper.

I personally like and use tests, formal verification, and so on. But the evidence for these methods are weak.

edit: To be clear, I am not ragging on the researchers. I think it's just kind of an inherently messy field with pretty much endless variables to control for and not a lot of good quantifiable metrics to rely on.