believe me if you you're the maverick the individualist
who hates being told "how to do it" with time you'll
conform to the trends.
first, you'll be so swamped with work that it would make sense
not to REINVENT THE WHEEL,
when your head has cooled to this extent , you'll be looking
at the libraries that came with your programming language,
rather than rushing to write your own code .

You'll want to not-stand-out too much.
you've heard of this framework,you'll feel left out-
you'll want to in and you'll finally buy the ideas it sells.

with time, yeah,with time -
you'll be so like everybody else.

poetic and firmly misguided. if that was the case, then there will be no progress ever. Its because we have unreasonable people still willing to reinvent the wheel that we have progress.

Case in point: Scala is a result of programmers refusing to code with the huge Java stacks instead prefering to write in a fast scripting language. same for ruby. Codeigniter(PHP) and CakePHP frameworks came about because some programmer refused to use huge frameworks like PEAR and ZEND and decided to "roll his own".

Dont celebrate mediocrity in the name of being sensible, they are not the same. You either have the skills and time management to do such or not.

You are effectively saying that we should not innovate, we should all live in cubicles banging out stupid code for a living. thats for programmers without a choice. thats for programmers who do not possess either the mental strictness to forgo personal pleasures like free-time until they attain their goals or the cash to float while they chase the big dream.

In a country of 140 million men and women (with upwards of 100 to 200 thousand coders), I and many others choose to stand out rather than become tiny cogs in the wheel or mediocre journeyman programmers banging out code for a living while secretly wishing we could be zuckerbergs. await our products.

enough said.