My approach is to just do what I can to unfuck the code without wasting my life on it and then reflect on what went wrong so I can catch the pattern before it g

My approach is to just do what I can to unfuck the code without wasting my life on it and then reflect on what went wrong so I can catch the pattern before it gets committed again. I just managed to stop a co-worker from making a mistake that cost my previous company an entire dev's full time attention for years.