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Other forms of narrow-minded instrumentalism include: déformation professionnelle, a French term for "looking at things from the point of view of one's profession", and regulatory capture, the tendency for regulators to look at things from the point of view of the profession they are regulating.
The notion of a golden hammer, "a familiar technology or concept applied obsessively to many software problems", has been introduced into the information technology literature in 1998 as an anti-pattern: a programming practice to be avoided.
Except in the most literal of cases (where the opposite of using a golden hammer would presumably be using the "right tool for the job") the antonym for this mindset would be there's more than one way to skin a cat.
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