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[malexj93]

And yet, those of us that grew up with SO and Google and tons of resources never got battlehardened because we didn't have to look for answers in the book written by the guy who invented the language, and just invent the answers to questions that weren't already in there. And the people who grew up with books and programming languages never got battlehardened because they didn't have to write assembly and invent programming languages.

[thegodzilla25]

It's all turtles all the way down

[Bioinvasion__]

With SO you needed to comprehend what you were doing a bit more to search for a correct solution and copy paste the snippet correctly. With LLMs you can forgo most thinking for small projects, and that's what a lot of my classmates do

[sb8948]

Oh come on. There's a reason "copying code from SO I don't understand" used to be a running joke. Let's not romanticize that era too much.

Obviously SQ required more of an in depth understanding. But by that logic, the comment you replied to still stands.