And particularly the “no tests go faster”.

I feel like we keep having to reestablish known facts every two years in this field.

I ran into some serious struggles when we got far enough into accepting most of the tenets of XP as standard practice that most jobs didn’t even debate half of them and then landed at places that still thought they were stupid. I’d taken for granted I wasn’t going to have to fight those fights and forgotten how to debate them. Because I Said So is not a great look.