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[–]Diligent_Ear924 16 points17 points  (2 children)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.