It's absolutely terrible. My first job out of college I was basically only fixing bugs in a python codebase. 99% of the bugs were from monkey patching and null

It's absolutely terrible. My first job out of college I was basically only fixing bugs in a python codebase. 99% of the bugs were from monkey patching and null pointer exceptions where people were trying to access properties on objects in places they were not instantiated yet. People that write code like this should be forced into bug jail like i was for a year.