+ studying about different software engineering principles such as "Don't repeat yourself", modularity, and clean code;
fully applying those principles even when it is not appropriate — e.g., modularizing files even if it consists of one line, creating a dedicated function if encountered two events even if insignificant
+ being entrenched in an idea that they overlooked simpler solutions by veterans;
in academia, this situation is often manifested as a supposed school assignments solved by a student like [[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-13/sydney-university-student-solves-quantum-computing-problem/100064328][how a long-standing quantum computing problem was solved by a student with simple modifications to the existing solution]];
in an unlikely manner, this is also present in speedrunning where tricks and techniques are often discovered by accident by a newcomer trying out things the veterans didn't think to do
- sometimes, this is when we go against the idea of [[id:1bdbdcfa-98f9-4d08-a0dc-ad2f1b9b9ec9][Advice shouldn't be taken literally]]