yup and I find it weird that people still remain so defensive of the Church of TDD even against empirical studies that show its limited benefits
Perhaps unsurprisingly it found that vibe coded tests suck. As a card carrying member of the "church of TDD" (I do think it is practical), this is an empirical result I certainly would agree with.
Substitute static typing for TDD in your comment, and it will remain equally valid statement.
Here I am talking about the basic static typing, and maybe some generics use occasionally, but obviously people also go overboard sometimes with type features and that hinders understanding for newcomers to the codebase.
I mean there are people who go nuts with very complicated types/type systems so there is that, and then you have very complicated programs, maybe that is what you mean?
Using static typing all the time is just using the tools. Using TDD for everything feels a bit suboptimal to me and so needs some obsession to do that. It only becomes a church then if they keep pestering everyone else to do it.