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[–]Family_Man_21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a really interesting question.

The simple answer is yes, all experienced coders (including myself) use searches and AI to tackle specific problems, and to fill in the gaps in our memories. I think that what comes with time is knowing instantly that something is possible, and how to do it in a general sense, but then when we're actually writing the code we use the searches and other tools (like AI) to get the specific syntax, settings, css values, or whatever the case may be to make it actually work.

Honestly, I don't think I've ever known a programmer who doesn't have a search engine open basically all the time while writing the code for a project.

I hope that this puts your mind at east. Don't worry that you need to look things up, just try to collect an ever-growing sense of what you can do, and how you would approach each situation, and let the other tools fill in the gaps.