It's basically a variation of Chesterton's fence[1]. There's a lot of hubris in thinking one could write a piece of code better than someone else if one has never attempted to write that piece of code, especially when never even having done anything like it at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence#Chesterto...

Yeah, like to do the job properly you need someone who's done the same job before. Become that someone by exploratorily building the thing you want to build before you seriously build it.

>All planning is a waste if you don't even know where the speed humps will lie.

If that's the place where someone is, they should be conferring with someone else who knows something instead of trying to fly solo

Blindly going through problem spaces is how you waste your life taking wrong approaches