No Silver Bullet

Fleeting

For every tool, there exist a situation where it is not useful.

Choosing a tool needs to be clear on the final objective. You might even need to run some multi criteria decision making to decide what tool provides the compromise that better suits your gut feelings.

Just saying « I cannot do X with the tool » is not enough per se. One should make sure per means « I need to do X and I cannot do it with the tool ».

Notes linking here

• Dogfooding et paire de rollers
• it is no silver bullet
• no silver bullet in cryptology
• software architecture
• why not saying feel confident doing what you are doing then?

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