Also known as Maslow’s law, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” the Law of the Instrument is a cognitive bias that refers to using the same tool or skill for every problem.
This bias is known as the Golden Hammer in computer programming.
References
- Wikipedia. (2020). Law of the instrument. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument.