Pharmaceutical Coding (Writing more code to fix problems your code caused) (maddie.today)

I once worked on a component so badly designed that I described the process of testing and fixing it as "software medicine" instead of "software engineering". The slightest change impacted a seemingly infinite amounts of variables in unseen ways, that the entire application would need to be restudied if only one part of it was changed. It was almost like testing the effects of a pill on a human.