Sometimes people haven't been exposed to different ways to solve problems, so they reach for the first thing that comes to mind. Sometimes the never learn to co

Sometimes people haven't been exposed to different ways to solve problems, so they reach for the first thing that comes to mind. Sometimes the never learn to consider multiple solutions and weigh their costs and benefits. I once had a boss who still coded, even though all the developers begged him to stop. His code was spaghetti, but worse was his inability to come up with more than one solution to a problem. If the first solution he came up with was complicated and error-prone then that's the one he proceeded with.