reinvents the wheel
Redoes solved problems
To reinvent the wheel is to waste effort developing something that already exists in satisfactory form.
The phrase is almost always critical: Why reinvent the wheel when there's perfectly good open-source code available?
The implication is that the wheel—ancient, universal, effective—needs no improvement, and attempting to create one from scratch is foolish.
- duplicationMaking an identical copy
- noveltyQuality of being original
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- repetitionAct of redoing
- wastefulnessCareless use of resources
inefficiency · redundancy · same old same old · gilding the lily · iteration · originality · overengineering · barking up the wrong tree · improvement · superfluity · upgrading · ingenuity · starting from scratch · back to square one · refinement · prototyping · chasing one's tail · going in circles
reinvents the wheelpioneers
First to explore territory
innovates · revolutionizes · pushes the envelope · disrupts · invents
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