What is patching hell and what does it do to any developer?

You will be a patching monkey, get rid of it and do this (Especially to junior dev)

Beginning

After 14 years of work. I have seen enough s**t happening. And many times, when It happens to a developer, who does not even realize it.

In this post, I want to highlight one of the most dangerous situations I have seen which could happen to any developer right now. especially to those junior devs.

If you are in such a situation, get out, and change the project or team, or company.

Whatever It takes.

This is why.

What is patching hell

As you can see. when S**t happens.

• Only one dev involved, (yes, poor dev)
• Fix immediately, poor fix without enough testing
• knowledge is NOT shared with anyone, so when It happens again, this same poor dev is the only one who knows how to fix it
• and continue this poor life for many cycles
• After a few months
• No teamwork, alone.
• Learned nothing, documented nothing, poor quality of code, no test
• A patching mindset created