The insight that "knowledge" is not the the problem, but "self discipline" is an interesting one.

I made similar observations and came up with a list of "coding commandments": https://larsxschneider.github.io/2013/08/25/ten-commandments...

A coworker of mine is working on something similar: https://github.com/Kosta-Github/cute

A friend of mine wrote something similar for C++: https://github.com/Kosta-Github/http-cpp