> if you're working with people who randomly 'forget' things while they are doing development, then I guarantee that you're working with people who also write buggy code. In fact, in this case, it was ME who wrote that buggy code. I own it.

We all write bugs, we're human and it's hard to think of everything all of the time.

My point was, when we make a thinking error that causes us to write a bug, that same thinking error means we also don't write that test that could find it. If you had thought of writing a test for the disabled thing when you wrote the code, you also would have written it correctly because you would have had that case in mind then.

Now you have a test, but because someone reported the bug and you fixed it. Now it's almost certainly not useful to have anymore.

I believe in automated tests, but for tricky logic mostly.