[throwbahay]

I like your honest tone and upfront attitude. As someone who left the industry because of this type of thinking I’d like to say it’s half-correct.

Patterns and anti-patterns are something which help make useful software. Not only architecture patterns like MVP or MVVM, but design patterns like a factory or builder etc.

It’s my belief there are also developer patterns and anti-patterns. The slacker pattern isn’t an anti-pattern, but often can incur the team pattern of daily iteration vs. bursts of work.

Most of what you’re discussing seems slated towards the anti-pattern of “words without code”. Which personally I believe is also an anti-pattern. The code must come, otherwise it’s not work, right?

But when you talk about these people “they hate tests” “doesn’t want to do X and Y perfunctory thing” your team isn’t presenting the value of those things first and foremost. Have you tried putting a “sheep” and a “slacker” together?