Design Patterns · Junior · Question 39 of 75

What is an anti-pattern?

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Examples: the "god object", spaghetti code, magic numbers, copy-paste, premature optimization. Knowing anti-patterns helps you spot them in reviews and explain why a solution is bad.

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