See, I think your example of breaking the thing is where things are tricky. I know you’re not advocating for it, but I feel like a lot of people get burned by a

See, I think your example of breaking the thing is where things are tricky. I know you’re not advocating for it, but I feel like a lot of people get burned by an experience like that. They think “Someone wrote a test. Then it broke. Then someone deleted it or fixed it wrong. Then something else broke and no one noticed because the test was deleted. Therefore, don’t write too many tests.” Isn’t that last step super weird? I don’t see how not writing tests would have prevented the regression. At most vague hand wavey “people would be more careful” which I don’t buy. The problem was breaking a dependency. Tests are not themselves dependencies, they are an automated stand-in for them.