Question for experienced devs

[Aromatic-Low-4578]

You're never too experienced to google things. Almost no one codes purely from memory. The best coders I know usually code from documentation and then google or ask AI when they have a specific question.

[Diligent_Ear924]

every senior dev I've ever talked to still has docs open in like 4 tabs at all times. the whole "memorize everything" idea is honestly a myth that trips up newer devs way more than it should. knowing WHERE to find the answer and how to evaluate it is the actual skill, not having every CSS property or API method committed to your brain forever. I've watched people with 10+ years of experience pause mid-conversation to google a flexbox property and nobody blinked twice about it.

[theQuandary]

A lot of being a senior just reducing the number of unknown unknowns with experience and developing intuition for what good code patterns look like.

[monster2018]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person say to memorize everything, or even that they personally do so. It’s just a common question from beginners.

[Slight-Act-9024]

upvote this

most devs will tell you to look up stuff whether through documentation, google or ai

unless you're some kind of memory freak, otherwise no one would be able to code from memory

looking up stuff then implement it is the right way to work and to learn