[pards]

> I've seen a lot of hot garbage for code because people were too busy to write the test.

I've seen a lot of hot garbage for code because people were too busy writing the tests and ignoring the readability and idiomatic norms of the production code they were writing.

[gleenn]

I firmly believe in TDD where you write the test, watch if correctly fail, make the test in the simplest possible way, and then refactor to make it more readable or idiomatic. Red, green, refactor. I'd rather try and fix ugly code that has tests than try and fix ugly code with no tests. Doing the latter is almost impossible sometimes because you don't even know the exact intent of the code or why some edge case is there etc.