I especially love when non-technical managers boldly claim that the customer doesn't pay for best practices and clean code, as if it's some sort of costumer-focused bold declaration that is more in touch with reality than what every other developer thinks.

I’m still convinced unit tests are a Santa clause type situation where it takes. While to figure out it’s really just a story told to naïve juniors

I'm very slow for some reason. Can somebody please ELI5 this statement?

"takes. While" was probably intended to be "takes a while"