I cringe whenever I hear someone talking about "what pattern to use here" (I cry if the answer is "singleton"). Patterns are a way of describing code. They are

I cringe whenever I hear someone talking about "what pattern to use here" (I cry if the answer is "singleton"). Patterns are a way of describing code. They are meant as a common language to use when explaining a codebase to another dev. If you are writing code with the express intention of "using X pattern", you're doing it backwards.