My impression, too, the author explicitly says he understands value of unit testing and will continue to do it, but he's going to give up on the idea of writing

My impression, too, the author explicitly says he understands value of unit testing and will continue to do it, but he's going to give up on the idea of writing tests before he writes the actual program code. Strange, from what I can tell 90+ percent of comments in this thread treat the author as if he said he was giving up tests entirely.