A friend of mine was just telling me about how the programmers at his job fix bugs by adding special cases at the top layer instead of by digging down and findi

A friend of mine was just telling me about how the programmers at his job fix bugs by adding special cases at the top layer instead of by digging down and finding the root cause. But my friend is old school and can't bring himself to be so hacky... But this means his co-workers close more tickets and it looks bad for him.