I've adapted to this team anti-pattern by becoming relentlessly skeptical and cynical in my work. I don't let anyone tell me something is "trivial" or "easy" in

I've adapted to this team anti-pattern by becoming relentlessly skeptical and cynical in my work. I don't let anyone tell me something is "trivial" or "easy" in programming unless I've actually seen it (meaning, with my own eyes, not reading about it on a blog), and protest untested ideas from coworkers vigorously, even if that person is a developer on my team whom I respect. I kind of hate this solution because it makes me automatically resistant to anything new whatsoever, but I hate it less than some of the code I've been forced to write to fill in gaps left by some flavor-of-the-month tech.