Maybe the reason my initial reaction is so negative is that XP would make me change the way I do things, and I don't want to.

Then be sure to let your employer know that, so that they don't bother making the mistake of putting you on any advanced stuff, and they can keep you with the other junior programmers and programmer technicians who are coding the designs of others or low-level crapwork like I had when I first started.

The day I stop learning how to change the way I do things is the day I hang my hat up as a mature programmer.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker