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by j33zusjuice 952 days ago
What you call monkey hammer is actually the “golden hammer,” or “law of the instrument.” Idk if that matters to you, but it’s an already defined thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

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I'm pretty sure they were referring to the established aphorism "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
I think it's one and the same, no? Your aphorism is literally cited in the first paragraph of the "Law of the instrument" linked above.
Crossed with a thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters.
It's an extrapolation of that. The golden hammer gives too much credibility to the people weilding the tool.
“Monkey hammer” is definitely very illustrative of a particular kind of chaos, I like it.