Approach to coding, good/bad

[Ofnuts]

I have never seen any usefulness in UML for "modeling" .

Neither did I until I was forced to use it for an application.
I actually feel that the visual aspect of it forced me to think of situations that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise.
It also laid out the database schema in a nice way.
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But then again, it's been 14 years since I've used it, and I've got along perfectly well without.

In all the specs I  have seen written using UML "tools", the author thought that the graphics were enough. It even got as bad as a project were the UML designer/architect stated that the DB schema from the tool was cast in concrete and would never change (to the point that we could not open a defect against the model). Of course it lasted about a month until they had to give in and have a first update. In the end in 18 months we had about 40 updates to the data model.