I think that everyone should have a 5 year stint with zero tests. I genuinely believe it offered me an insight into the deepest parts of depression. In saying

I think that everyone should have a 5 year stint with zero tests. I genuinely believe it offered me an insight into the deepest parts of depression. In saying that, it was raw and I think I enjoyed my job more. There is no safety harness. You write decent working code and sign your name by it or you run home to your mothers nipple. I definitely learned a lot about programming during that time. To take a terrible system and try to research ways to make it better for your own mental health, not the companies is a personal drive and golden age of discovery which plays a part of my programming to this day. I get none of this from TTD. It is intensely dull and unsatisfying but gets the job done.