My favorite version is the “forceX” antipattern, where you introduce boolean flags to turn off some aspect of a function. E.g. “loadData(forceFromDisk: bool)”,

My favorite version is the “forceX” antipattern, where you introduce boolean flags to turn off some aspect of a function. E.g. “loadData(forceFromDisk: bool)”, where “forceFromDisk == true” bypasses the cache. Then somewhere down the line someone realizes that actually in some cases of “forceFromDisk == true”, we still want to load the data from the cache, so the function becomes “loadData(forceFromDisk: bool, forceCache: bool)” where “forceCache == true” overrides “forceFromDisk”. Then somewhere down the line someone realizes that actually in some cases of “forceCache == true”, we still want to load from the disk… Repeat ad infinitum.