What world do you live in that TDD does not work in? I definitely do not do TDD all of the time, but when I do it works absolutely perfect. I'd pay any employee

What world do you live in that TDD does not work in? I definitely do not do TDD all of the time, but when I do it works absolutely perfect. I'd pay any employee a 20% maturity bonus for applying TDD consistently. People are all getting mad about the "best practices" bit as if it's not just a fact. Does it hurt that much to admit that maybe you're not always the mature developer you'd want to be? I sure am not, I always get carried away writing cowboy code, maybe writing tests after, maybe not because I'm in a hurry and we can stand a bug or 2, and the CI/CD will catch any syntax errors anyway. The rules are simple though. You determine the best practices, you apply them, and your code will be more correct, it will be written faster, you will spend less time being confused, your final product will be closer to the specifications, and it will have less bugs. How could this be contentious? No way there's anyone out there that truly feels they wouldn't push less bugs to production if they always could and would apply TDD.