reinventing wheel
Solving solved problems
Reinventing the wheel is doing unnecessary work to create something that already exists in adequate form.
The phrase usually carries criticism—why spend effort solving a problem others have solved?
Don't reinvent the wheel; just use the existing library.
Sometimes appears as reinvent the wheel when someone is urged not to.
- redundantExceeding what's needed
- inefficientPoor at using resources
- duplicateExact replica of original
- innovationCreating something original
- starting overBeginning again from scratch
square one · waste of time · unnecessary · repetition · copying · tried and true · old news · original · creativity · beaten path · shortcut · solution · problem-solving · engineering · design · prototype · iteration · discovery
- antipatternsspaghetti code, dead code, code smell, technical debt, cargo cult
- overdoing itoverdo, overreach, overwork, overspend, overexert
reinventing wheelbreaking new ground
Doing something never done
pioneering · paradigm shift · blazing trails · disruptive innovation · trailblazing
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