You don’t have to have microservices in the end result, but you could develop and test them as microservices, then have them automatically rewritten into a mono

You don’t have to have microservices in the end result, but you could develop and test them as microservices, then have them automatically rewritten into a monolith, perhaps with a subset of their functionality, if that would fit better. Similarly, you could do TDD on a high percentage of the code by using injection, then automatically rewrite the code into static methods, as Atwood was saying they needed for performance, if that’s what would help. Code generation, etc. got a bad name over the years as people tended to use it to balloon the eventual source, like that of many autogenerated config files today, but it can be used to do almost anything.