You are setting up a comical hypothetical situation in which the developer is blundering through their job in a mindless inept manner. I'll just stop you right

You are setting up a comical hypothetical situation in which the developer is blundering through their job in a mindless inept manner. I'll just stop you right there. No amount of best practices, process, or tooling will fix an incompetent developer who is part of a disorganized team that are working on a pile of bad architecture.