I think this is a fallacy and a hard one to fall into. By shipping buggy code, you will end up creating a larger number of incoming bugs. Consequently, the amou

I think this is a fallacy and a hard one to fall into. By shipping buggy code, you will end up creating a larger number of incoming bugs. Consequently, the amount of time you spend on incoming bugs will increase from 5% of sprint to 30% to cases where you have to do bug-only sprints. In the short term, TDD will look like it's costing more (especially if the product is not released). But if you want developers to maintain confidence in their code or for your team to depend upon the dev team's ability to deliver robust code, it's an important safeguard to have.