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Tdd is actual engineering: requirements first, set expectations, plan, estimate, build. Silicon Valley (generalization) has extreme shortsghtedness when it comes to building software, there are a lot of prima donnas, hipsters using whatever is cool,tech decisions made on opinion rather than measurement, and NIH.

Have a spine and push for tdd. The prima donnas will attack you ad hominum and call you slow. But it feels pretty damned good to be right.

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    actual engineering

    prima donnas, hipsters

    have a spine

And then...

    The prima donnas will attack you ad hominum

I'm not for or against TDD, but you've gotta see the irony here.

    The prima donnas will attack you ad hominum and call
    you slow.

I don't know whether to laugh at or applaud the irony of that statement.

That's why conservative engineering traditions mandate that whenever one sets out to design a bridge, the very first thing to do is to build a really heavy car.

You also want to make sure your heavy car falls off the leading edge of the bridge before you raise the support structure for that part. So you're sure you're not building unnecessary bridge parts.

> requirements first, set expectations, plan, estimate, build

So, all the process that is known for decades to mostly not work for software?

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