Yeah, but that's also stupid. All to often it comes down to "Make standup a completly working client server system for this arbitrary problem from scratch in 30 minutes, starting... NOW!"

You end up spending all your time dicking around with missed semicolons and looking up library routines and shit like that. Sure, it's all stuff you have to do as part of a job, but it's also all trivial stuff.

The last time I had to do this, I spent time googling how to open up a port in python, and then read from stdin. It's just a waste of time.

All this does is test the wrong things.