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title: "6 Types of Anti Patterns to Avoid in Software Development"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/6-types-of-anti-patterns-to-avoid-in-software-development-lbgpbdvgk
source_url: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/6-types-of-anti-patterns-to-avoid-in-software-development/
type: article
source: "GeeksforGeeks"
published: 2021-01-16T03:56:55.378Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 16
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# 6 Types of Anti Patterns to Avoid in Software Development

**[GeeksforGeeks](https://daily.dev/sources/gfg)** · 8 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

This blog is for all those developers who started hiding their faces in front of senior engineers when they were caught red-handed because of the mess they created in the codebase. An anti-pattern is the opposite side of the design pattern. They are usually ineffective or obscure fixes. The existence of an anti- pattern in your code can create a lot of bugs.

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**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> Don't write Spaghetti Code 🍝 and more such anti patterns.

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