Heh, my first job was a big TDD shop and while I learned many valuable skill - and even still write my tests first at times - I definitely encountered people wh

Heh, my first job was a big TDD shop and while I learned many valuable skill - and even still write my tests first at times - I definitely encountered people who were religiously dogmatic about TDD and pairing. Both of those are useful tools, but doing them 100% of the time is challenging. For me, as a brand new dev, the attitude of "you must always write a test before you write code" was stifling and made it harder to learn things at times. To quote our noble caveman patron saint, "how grug test what grug not understand domain yet?!"