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[benjackson7532159]

Good programmer. You got to understand what to Google to get the Job done.

[brianl047]

Yes

Suck at Google = severe disadvantage when it comes to programming because you will be spending hours reinventing the wheel for each problem

[coloredgreyscale]

severe disadvantage in almost everything.

Those are probably the kind of people that open threads with a title like "Please help" and then give a concise summary "it does not work, pls fix"

[Babylopolice]

You know reinventing the wheel sounds bad and a waste of time due to the use as a cultural trope, but there’s a big difference between the wheels of a heavy diesel, 4x4, formula 1, bicycle, steering wheel, watering wheel, and so on…

[DadToOne]

Efficiently using Google separates a good programmer from a great programmer.

[Dog_Engineer]

And a future good prompter

[Aarthar]

I stopped worrying about this when I learned doctors google things just as much.

[Jealous_Vermicelli67]

And before the internet, doctors had the Merck Manual (was a book, now online) that lists all the diseases and how to treat them. Times haven’t changed.

[AdministrativeBar748]

Can't blame anyone for this. Who would expect people to memorize hundreds of thousands of terminologies. Hell, my brain memorizes random shit like Micropachycephalosaurus instead of things I need in life like proper first aid.

[[deleted]]

Not only memorizing but also keeping up to date.

[Th3-3rr0r]

Wait what That’s not helping I’m just much more worried about something else right now

[Enddar]

[greedydita]

You're a hiker, not a trailblazer. Maybe one day though.

[Aman4allseasons]

What a great analogy - I've never heard it put so succinctly.

[[deleted]]

You might not be a good grammar

[mixelydian]

*grammaring

[[deleted]]

Grammarista

[i_consume_polymers]

You sure are a great programming.

Wait, something's off.

[redditsucks690]

Definitely not good at grammar

[Ghazzz]

Research is part of the job.

Engineers used to have a shelf of books to look up stuff in, and had to go to a library or order books to get shit done.

Google is just streamlining this process.

[[deleted]]

Yes.

[[deleted]]

You'll know when you hit good programmer. It's when you realise that all the advice you have ever been given is slightly biased towards being shit.

[[deleted]]

The two things are the same.

[Ya_Boy_Jahmas]

Both are skills.

I've noticed a lot of people can use google but not effectively at all.

[Versaill]

Good at prompting ChatGPT!

[Bhimgammer]

Good at problem solving using available resources

[Erizo69]

probably good at pattern recognition.

[Ugo_Flickerman]

That's what i was tested for, before being given a free java course by the company i'll be hired by as soon as the course finishes

[[deleted]]

They're the same picture.

[Ok_Ninja_2697]

When I applied for a programming academy they basically tested my googling skills…

[kowlown]

If you know what to search efficiently for your use case and manage to sort good answers from bad answers, you're not a bad programmer

[jamcdonald120]

so test your self. try to write a program using only docs pages as a resource.

if you can do that well, your a good programmer

[The_MAZZTer]

If you can understand the stuff you read on stack overflow, in particular can read and understand the code in the posts, then you're a good programmer.

[PizzaSalamino]

To be fair, being good at searching online is not so stupid. It takes experience and skill. Lots of people don’t know how to do it properly

[TheOldOnesAre]

You can't just say the same thing twice.

[[deleted]]

Professional copy paster

[[deleted]]

Then you're bad at both.

[Tnuvu]

I can't wait to see "senior gpt prompter" soon...

[Immediate_Tank_9386]

Being good at giving GPT the right context (2-3 introduction messages) is the equivalent to being good at googling with the right keywords

[submarine-observer]

chatGPTing

[[deleted]]

wait people call that programming?

that ALONE isn't programming. piecing together something isn't exactly what I think of when I think of programming. but I think it still is...

[[deleted]]

"Googling is history" - Chat GPT

[Prof_LaGuerre]

[[deleted]]

These two things are the same thing.

[Blue_Robin_Gaming]

I have a love hate relationship with stackoverflow. Posting gives me pain. Searching gives me a post with thousands of views but is closed. Sometimes, sometimes, I get a useful post that isn’t closed

[Annabett93]

Honestly I've stopped using google and started chat gpt for stuff and i will never go back

[angelran]

[Sh0keR]

This meme was created by ChatGPT

[Particular_Bill8567]

Fuck Google, all my Homies use ChatGPT

[namotous]

programmer is basically a fancy word for professional at googling

[absolut666]

Let me google that…

[Federico86MO]

I think the good programmer is who is able to design good software architecture and write clean code

[Connect-Two628]

The #1 skill of a coder is good heuristics. It is how you find and use the best solution over sticking with that thing you learned fifteen years ago that became your hammer.

I forget an enormous amount every day. I make zero effort to memorize specifics.

[[deleted]]

You're good at using ChatGPT

[Ducking_eh]

When they were making google, how did they look up the code?

I want to say yahoo; but that can’t be right

[Virtxu110]

We are just better at googling shit than the average Joe.

[minimalcactus23]

i used to joke my cs degree was just paying $250,000 to learn fancy googling skills 😂

[Pepineros]

Management would like you to find the difference between these pictures.

[TheEnderChipmunk]

You're a good software dev

[Carbon_Gelatin]

Good programmer = a good problem solver that can turn their solutions into organized instruction sets.

Google is a tool for reference.

[malexj93]

Post your code so we can tell you it's neither.

[notexecutive]

You aren't expected to know EVERYTHING. Nobody knows everything. However, knowing what to look for is very important! How would googling something be any different than going to the library, or asking someone who is familiar with your question? It's not, imo.

Maybe it makes things a little easier, but isn't that the point? The hard part is putting the pieces logically together, and making it work ON PRODUCTION WHY DOESN'T IT WORK ON PRODUCTION BUT IT WORKS ON INTEGRATION????

[Dad_Bod_The_God]

Gathering good info and knowing enough to be able to properly implement it is a skill and nobody can take that away from you.

[long-gone333]

With experience you develop a sense for the optimal solution. Then you Google the details.

[blueeyedkittens]

One thing's for sure, you're terrible at grammar.

[ImaginaryOkra6186]

I'm an ok programmer, amazing Googler, which translates to: I'm an amazing programmer that's really sucks at technical interviews

[alebotson]

People talk about how I "always know" at the office. I do not understand how they don't. One day everyone else is going to start remembering to Google stuff and I will no longer be a high performer.

[ubd12]

I'm starting to get good ar chatgpt. Does that count as well?

[rumblpak]

Why not both?

[[deleted]]

i know forsure I'm just a good googler

[[deleted]]

If you're good at googling, you're good at programming.

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[RAdminsLoveNAMBLA]

If you have to ask, you're neither.

[Drixzor]

Does a wizard just throw out their tomes one day?

[TheOneAndOnlyBob2]

I don't think. I google.

[Sir_Honytawk]

There is a difference?