if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail¶
The. (1966). if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. law of the instrument.
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Mechanisms¶
- Reusable Playbook Library
- Its failure mode is the law of the instrument — with a rich library on hand, every situation starts to look like a match for an existing play, and agents force novel cases into stored answers that no longer fit.
This sourceA well-stocked playbook library is a standing temptation to it, which is why the reuse metric must watch for mis-application, not just volume.
- Its failure mode is the law of the instrument — with a rich library on hand, every situation starts to look like a match for an existing play, and agents force novel cases into stored answers that no longer fit.
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