I wish everything was so simple. At a past job a very technically strong coworker spent months on a problem and eventually threw the towel and handed it to me.

I wish everything was so simple. At a past job a very technically strong coworker spent months on a problem and eventually threw the towel and handed it to me. It took me another couple months to find a reasonable solution to it. Some problems are _really_ hard and no amount of help will get a dev to solve it faster.