~15 years later, I don't think I'm worse off than my peers who stayed away from all those websites. Doing the right searches is probably as important as being able to read manuals properly today.
no they didn't, no one said that
i know that because i was around then and everyone was doing the same thing
also, maybe there's a difference between searching and collating answers and just copy and pasting a solution _without thinking_ at all
You're right, probably hallucinated memory of much more senior people telling me exactly that.
> i know that because i was around then and everyone was doing the same thing
Damn, we worked together in the same company at that time? Nice to meet you again after all these years. Still thinking of picking up farming once you get out of prison?
> ExpertSexchange
Having a tool that’s embedded into your workflow and shows you how things can be done based on tons of example codebases could help a junior dev quite a lot to learn, not just to produce.
Based on the classmates I had in college who were paying to get a CS degree, I'd be surprised if many junior devs already working a paid job put much effort into learning rather than producing.
I'm not sure there's much of a skillset to speak of for these tools, beyond model-specific tricks that evaporate after a few updates.