Help me find this usage history

I remember reading a book a few years ago on how to use books. (This was probably before user stories supplanted this part of the terminology.)

The task was something like adding new clients.

There was a roughly 1-page offset describing a couple of developers saying something like "We don't need smelly Use Cases. We do this all the time. It won't take more than a couple of hours."

They came back the next day with your classic CRUD-type table maintenance screen and were therefore chewed over compared to a UI developed from a good use case.

Does anyone repeat this? It made its mark at the time, and it's still a good cautionary tale. I would like to find him again.