"I'm using technology I know that will get us there" is not the same as treating every problem as a nail. It's making a practical choice that probably also had time constraints and other factors we don't know.
> Nobody who worked in the 80s or 90s would have selected this solution
How does this support your argument? The tech didn't even exist in the 80s or 90s.
Saying "They wouldn't have made the same choices 40 years" is meaningless in this context. There's a lot of things they wouldn't have done back then that we do today. And this is a field that has been changing by the week recently, which makes even less appropriate.
This idiom now apparently means "I disagree with your tech choices" or in your case, "Someone 40 years ago would disagree with your tech choices".
This saying has been abused 10 ways til Sunday.
"I'm using technology I know that will get us there" is not the same as treating every problem as a nail. It's making a practical choice that probably also had time constraints and other factors we don't know.
> "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.
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".
I think it’s completely applicable here. Nobody who worked in the 80s or 90s would have selected this solution.
> Nobody who worked in the 80s or 90s would have selected this solution
How does this support your argument? The tech didn't even exist in the 80s or 90s.
Saying "They wouldn't have made the same choices 40 years" is meaningless in this context. There's a lot of things they wouldn't have done back then that we do today. And this is a field that has been changing by the week recently, which makes even less appropriate.
This idiom now apparently means "I disagree with your tech choices" or in your case, "Someone 40 years ago would disagree with your tech choices".
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