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> "I'm using technology I know that will get us there" is not the same as treating every problem as a nail.

Hammering in a screw is using technology that the hammer-wielder knows will get there. You’ve just rephrased the statement.

What you seem to be saying is that in some cases, the hammer may be the appropriate tool. No-one disputes that.

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How do you know it wasn't the appropriate technology?

My point is that the idiom has now come to mean "I disagree with your tech choices".




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