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A C++ codebase demonstrates two anti-patterns in object-oriented design: manually tracking derived class types in the base class using enums instead of leveraging polymorphism, and implementing base class methods that cast to derived classes using dynamic_cast. Both approaches require the base class to know about all derived classes, defeating the purpose of inheritance. The code produces unreproducible std::bad_cast exceptions because the casting logic is fundamentally flawed and inconsistently applied throughout the codebase.

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