Law of the Instrument and Curse of the Programmer

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If you aren’t familiar with the Law of the Instrument, otherwise known as*Maslow’s hammer/gavel, or the golden hammer it is often expressed as

If your only tool is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail.

My understanding is that the law of the instrument means you are limited by instruments or tools you know how to use. For example, if you have a screw, some wood, and a hammer

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