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I don’t like code that compiles cleanly or runs cleanly on the first try. The worst is when I know that code isn’t close to done yet. Without errors my list of actionable tasks is low. I know there are a certain number of problems, and if I can’t see any it’s because they’re invisible, not because I don’t have any.

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I came here to say this exactly. There's nothing more stressful to me than when a lot of freshly-written C++ compiles without error or warning on the first try, and then seems to run without issues. I get the distinct feeling that there is a problem that I'm just not seeing yet.

Eh, that heavily depends on language. Some have better tooling to get most of the typical errors out before the compile.

That being said I'm always suspicious and start to fiddle with them if I see test + code pass on first time

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