this is terrible advise - you should be using unknown. using any you're basically disabling TS and will be under the false assumption that your code is ok while it's most likely missing a lot of runtime checks
using any is actually much worse than using TS, because you're basically telling the compiler "don't help me here".. at least with JS the IDE is gonna help you.. :/
depends on the company/team culture. are other people gonna have to fix or extend code you wrote? are you the sole engineer working on entire modules? do you hate feedback?
there are shows where it works (Frasier) and shows where it's horrible (Frasier 2023)