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Why would bad code hold them back? The technical debt of quick and dirty code lets you get things out faster now at the cost of development time later on (and uptime if you're very slapdash).

I don't blame people for buying into the TDD and other perfectionist bandwagons, until very recently the zeal around the topics meant that you couldn't question the fervent push for very narrow and specific types of software quality. I mean, people were saying "tests are documentation" and I had to nod my head and smile just so I wouldn't get trounced by folks without the development experience to know why that wouldn't work, but had read a blog post saying it does.