It seems pretty obvious that TDD was a good idea for some folks, but it became a meme long before most of us were ever exposed to it. By that point you couldn't

It seems pretty obvious that TDD was a good idea for some folks, but it became a meme long before most of us were ever exposed to it. By that point you couldn't just write tests and do dev work, you had to join the church of TDD if you wanted to play. Then some lazy ruby scripter like me gets told to write tests not code, and we end up with another layer of glorified middle management to make sure "everything was written with a test" Eventually those of us who have work to do throw away the junk, get things done, or we move on. Its a pretty natural progression for most bureaucratic organizations.