> I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it f

> I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it for X? That's basically the definition of hacking in the hacker news sense of the word. Just because you can use your impact driver as a hammer doesn't mean its going to last if you use it like one. It doesn't seem contradictory to acknowledge that you can do all sorts of things, but some of those things are going to have varying levels of consequences. There is a sense of optimism that I see in people that everything new is good. I had that same optimism for a long time. But so did people who were using leaded gas and xrays for fitting shoes. Now I reflexively don't trust anything that doesn't have a long history of successful usage.