Anti Patterns of Performance and Bhartiya Practices - Part 6 - Golden Hammer Anti Pattern

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Golden Hammer Anti Pattern

The belief that there is a technology or tool that significantly improves productivity and reduces errors without significant drawbacks, is often called the Golden Hammer Anti-Pattern. It’s a kind of cognitive bias, that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool, and as the American psychologist Abraham Maslow, to whom the concept is attributed, said (1966): "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail."
So, the idea that information is the most potent tool to deal with all kinds of national challenges that we face today, is somewhere the beginning of getting trapped by the golden hammer anti-pattern. When our ideas, culture, and identity were attacked by information weapons, the natural response was that we must fight it with the counter information products. And that worked too! But we cannot ignore the fact that there is a limit to promotion/awareness traffic, and too much of anything is detrimental to health.

Now with the launch of new and improved AI-based tools for digital content creation, in audio/video and text, all possible forms, AI-generated graphics/animations/visual effects, on the click of a mouse, all these will further accelerate creative temptations in the future. Soon there will be more producers of information than consumers! But the question is where the trajectory will head in the future and what will be the next stage?

What’s Next? – Hammer on the idea of Information

[An excerpt from Devsena Mishra's Article- "Anti-Patterns of Performance and Bhartiya Practices"]