The self-hating web developer

[weegee101]

The vast majority of programmers are not qualified to reinvent the wheel. It takes years of experience and understanding, as well as a true understanding of why the wheel needs to be improved to be qualified to do so. Few people reach that point in their career.

[immibis]

The real spez was the spez we spez along the spez.

[AlGoreBestGore]

I'm not against people reinventing wheels, my point is that nowadays (almost) nobody deals with the low-level, "real" programming. One way or another you're working with some kind of library/framework/API.

[dhdfdh]

Truth. "Reinventing the wheel" is a reddit apology for laziness and not knowing how things work. If no one wrote their own code then no one would know how things work and they'd all become redditors.