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by 2h 1188 days ago
> anti-patterns

I agree with all that, but patternic is not a word.

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To you. English has a variety of suffixes that allow for exactly this kind of constructive generation of new words. Thus 'patternic' is a word precisely because it has just been coined. Or do you only ever approve of "dictionary" words without pondering where they might come from?