I remember watching a talk of Bob's where he pumped up how good his approach to coding was, and when asked to provide examples, he could/would/did not provide any. Seriously, if you can't demonstrate what you're talking about, I'm just gonna take you less seriously.

I think it was this video, but I can't watch it all the way through right now -- https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc

People like this need to be put into managing a team of visual basic devs at an obscure local DMV IT department, and force them to make projects after projects until they realize that if they want something done in those situations, they have to get dumber.