A teardown of Argo CD anti-patterns calls out 28 common misfires—stuff like skipping Git for Application CRDs or stuffing Helm/Kustomize config right into Argo CD manifests. Yikes. It pushes for a cleaner setup: use **ApplicationSets** instead of rolling your own YAML, turn on **auto-sync/self-heal**, and split your Git repos—one for source code, one for K8s manifests, one for CD logic. Keep the layers tidy.
