I know what you meant. What I’m saying is that this doesn’t strike me as a danger of TDD so much as a danger of not thinking. Whether you don’t think while following the TDD methodology or you don’t think while following any other methodology (including the no-methodology) really makes no difference – beyond determining in which way you end up screwing up.

I suppose that implicit in your descriptions of the “danger” of TDD is that you intend to express “if you don’t think while following TDD, this is what is likely to happen.” I tend not to find such consequences very interesting because I tend to take thinking along as a given and a prerequisite, which makes your elaborations sound like they’re implying something more along the lines of “if you use TDD, you are likely to stop thinking.” Next to your statements showing you understand TDD quite well this creates an odd sort of cognitive dissonance, and that made me comment.

If I’ve read you correctly, then now you also know how to read me.

Makeshifts last the longest.