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by jedberg 3053 days ago
> If your engineers don‘t write tests you hired the wrong people.

That's great if you have the luxury of time.

Good test coverage will definitely save you time in the long run, no doubt about it. But it will cost you dearly in the short term.

And if your company's life or death hangs on getting a feature out a couple days sooner, then skipping tests is a perfectly valid thing to do.