B.4:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Anti-Pattern	Observable symptom	How FPF prevents it conceptually
The “Immaculate Conception”	A feature or design appears with no observed basis or identity decision.	CC-B4.1 and CC-B4.2 connect the change to an observed basis and state whether the subject continues or has a successor.
The “Self-Healing Illusion”	“The system automatically improves itself” hides who or what performed the Work.	CC-B4.3 requires a distinct acting-side System. An internal control or adaptation loop is valid when exact internal participants, their parthood, the Work, Methods, and phase transitions are identified; physical externality is not required.
The “Perfect Hotfix”	A quick run-time repair is reported as a complete successful loop, although design repair, evidence, or renewed-use confirmation did not occur.	Record only the urgent observation, change Work, deployment, and immediate result that actually occurred. Later description repair, testing, assurance, and follow-up operation are separate Work and may reopen the loop. A hotfix can compress time, not truth.