>Often times as a Software Developer I encounter a bug which has an obvious two line fix. Rather than implementing that though I often spend another few minutes

>Often times as a Software Developer I encounter a bug which has an obvious two line fix. Rather than implementing that though I often spend another few minutes digging into how and why that bug was introduced. Often times I'm left with a greater understanding of the problem or encounter a requirement that the previous developer was trying to implement that my fix would have broken. >Other developers will simply assume the previous developer was an idiot and bash in the fix. That is exactly the case of Chesterton's fence (JFYI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence