> Perhaps I’m being unfair to Design Patterns, but those articles seem like the worst kind of tech writing, the most likely to inspire useless discussion that d

> Perhaps I’m being unfair to Design Patterns, but those articles seem like the worst kind of tech writing, the most likely to inspire useless discussion that doesn’t help move a team forward. Design patterns have their place, though I can see merit to arguments that assert they have been emphasized out of proportion to their utility over the years. But this is a strange critique, given the content of this particular article.