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I love how you selfishly think about your agency as if there was no team involved dealing with your "snowflake creation".

When I give this advice it usually means I don't think the output is better than the existing thing and the dependency cost is better paid in the form of integration.I probably don't think you'll really maintain your creation or think about others using it when you do.

As long as we are throwing shitty incentives around.

But on a more neutral note, it's a tradeoff with many moving parts. Different choices for different scenarios.



If it were my team complaining about "wheel reinvention" or "NIH" I would be ok, but I never saw this kind of gatekeeping at work.

It's always internet strangers who are too dogmatic even though there's zero context.


I've encountered _plenty_ of stubborn dogmatism at work. People get an idea about "the right way" to do something, and refused to consider alternatives.


I have also encountered plenty of stubborn dogmatism at work, but not this type as much.

People might add a redundant or dangerous library because they don’t know better but they don’t fight for it, like here.




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