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And TDD is bad because it requires too much of typing /sarcasm


TDD is bad because it introduces distracting busywork. The actual typing isn't the actual problem.

In terms of just typing, I could probably produce something like 50,000 lines of code in a 40 hour work week in a moderately verbose programming language. In practice I'll probably crank out somewhere between 1000-5000.

It's the thinking that is slow. It's made even slower by adding additional tasks and context switching.


The average professional software engineer produces around 10 LOC per day.




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