I believe that it's a useful conversation to have -- if we are all just trying to ship code, when are we going to have the discussion of what makes code readable? What makes code reliable? What makes code quicker to deliver?

Further, as a automated test advocate (whether or not it's TDD or unit or mocks or stubs or whatever flavor you like) I want to walk into projects where I don't have to deal with changing code without having a good and fast test base to minimize the potential defects. If TDD gets us to that point, I'm all for it.

I don't care how you create software unless I have to use it or inherit it.