--- title: Use What You Know | daily.dev description: An opinion piece argues developers don't need to constantly chase new frameworks, AI tools, or skills. It suggests that consistently building with familiar... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/use-what-you-know-a5m0wlw2j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Use What You Know | daily.dev og:description: An opinion piece argues developers don't need to constantly chase new frameworks, AI tools, or skills. It suggests that consistently building with familiar... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/use-what-you-know-a5m0wlw2j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/A5M0WLw2j.png og:image:alt: Use What You Know og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Use What You Know **[John Liter](https://daily.dev/sources/yhf9cpdgtqetokv6d8qhm)** · [@jliter85](https://daily.dev/jliter85) · 1 min read · 21 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An opinion piece argues developers don't need to constantly chase new frameworks, AI tools, or skills. It suggests that consistently building with familiar technologies can teach more than perpetually pursuing the latest trend, pushing back against the pressure to always be learning something new. ## Content You don't always need another framework, AI tool or skill. Consistently building with what you already know may teach you more than chasing the next trend. [Click to read the full article](https://realjohnliter.substack.com/p/at-some-point-you-have-to-stop-learning?r=7ztgjw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true) #DevLife #Learning #Productivity #BuildInPublic ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dear Coder: Open This If You're Feeling AI FOMO](https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n) · DEV · 178 upvotes · 18 comments - [Quit trying to keep up with every new AI tool and keep building](https://daily.dev/posts/quit-trying-to-keep-up-with-every-new-ai-tool-and-keep-building-hzpuzonyn) · Dynatrace · 5 upvotes · 5 comments - [A skill we need to learn is how to…](https://daily.dev/posts/a-skill-we-need-to-learn-is-how-to--qyhfhtnwx) · Justin Searls · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/use-what-you-know-a5m0wlw2j) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/use-what-you-know-a5m0wlw2j","headline":"Use What You Know","text":"An opinion piece argues developers don't need to constantly chase new frameworks, AI tools, or skills. 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