I'm a TDD fanatic, but I abandon unit tests when writing exploratory code. The whole point when exploring is just to try ideas and follow inspirations. Unit t

I'm a TDD fanatic, but I abandon unit tests when writing exploratory code. The whole point when exploring is just to try ideas and follow inspirations. Unit testing forces you to stop every couple of minutes to think things through carefully and lock in what you've got. It messes up the exploratory flow.