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Good luck getting concrete interfaces locked down to the point where you can write meaningful tests - all the while managing the rest of your workload - when the business requirements change every week or so.

You also don't need to write test early on. Especially if you are still validating your product. For the first year or so of our service, we just manually tested the important features after every deploy.

That sounds miserable to me, but it may be that we are working on different platforms where the cost/benefit of tests differ.

Exactly. This is analogous to "the dose makes the poison" and "everything in moderation".