We should separate doing science from adopting science.
Testing medical drugs is doing science. They test on mice because it's dangerous to test on humans, not to restrict scope to small increments. In doing science, you don't always want to be extremely cautious and incremental.
Trying to build a browser with 100 parallel agents is, in my view, doing science, more than adopting science. If they figure out that it can be done, then people will adopt it.
Trying to become a more productive engineer is adopting science, and your advice seems pretty solid here.
Testing medical drugs is doing science. They test on mice because it's dangerous to test on humans, not to restrict scope to small increments. In doing science, you don't always want to be extremely cautious and incremental.
Trying to build a browser with 100 parallel agents is, in my view, doing science, more than adopting science. If they figure out that it can be done, then people will adopt it.
Trying to become a more productive engineer is adopting science, and your advice seems pretty solid here.