When someone says “this is how I do it” – they aren’t asking for input; they are definitely not asking for advice or feedback on how they do their job.
They are simply saying, “This is how I do it,” and the corollary, which is “Deal with it.”
They don’t say the “Deal with it,” but it’s implied, and you need to figure out how to work around it or with it.
It’s an odd statement, because anyone can pull up an AI agent and ask for the best path to do a job, and 70% of the time, there is always room for improvement.
But this is how I do it, and I refuse to change.
Then change will happen around you, until we have to drag you into it, and how you did it will become “how it held me back”