A critical look at the dogmatic adoption of TDD and GenAI in software development

I've gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD).

The basic premise of TDD, for those unaware, is that one first writes a unit test that verifies the expected behavior for some code they want to write, observes the new test fail, and then one writes the implementation, iterating on it until the test passes.

I have met a lot of people who swear by it! And, I have also met a lot of people who insisted that I adopt it, too, often with the implied threat of appealing to my boss if appealing to me didn't work.