This points to a need of looking for, building off prior work where possible.
Taking it a step further to generate a method of meta-solving this problem: there are many parallels here to programming and device connectors of old (phone charger or other standards). I would imagine we could look to how those sorts of problems were solved and apply or derive the analogous technique here.
this is a surprisingly valid concern. But I would counter that I hope when you invent something on the fly it doesn’t get used a prolifically as “the wheel”.
Teach a man to reinvent a wheel every time he needs one and you’ll have a lot of funny wheels (and not much of anything else).
This points to a need of looking for, building off prior work where possible.
Taking it a step further to generate a method of meta-solving this problem: there are many parallels here to programming and device connectors of old (phone charger or other standards). I would imagine we could look to how those sorts of problems were solved and apply or derive the analogous technique here.
this is a surprisingly valid concern. But I would counter that I hope when you invent something on the fly it doesn’t get used a prolifically as “the wheel”.