Why so many posts reinventing the wheel?
I see so many posts that follow the same anti-pattern. I want to do ABC so I wrote XYZ. The initial response is almost always but PQR already does that.
I genuinely don’t understand why people don’t look for an existing alternative and build on that. Even if an existing project isn’t quite right for what you want, surely forking and modifying the existing project makes more sense than writing something from scratch?
I recently went looking for an MCP server for some wiki software I found and there were several basic tools available and one that was more complete but failed basic security due diligence. I chose the best of the basics and forked and worked on that. It’s abandonware so I am now some 50 commits ahead but if the original dev wants to pick it back up he can.