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Abraham Williams

I Google almost everything because I don't remember the APIs, just that there is a way to do it.

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Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez

That's why I have like a ton of docsets in Zeal

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Gregor Gonzalez

Same! Google driven development

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Terry Keeney

I'm with you on this one...
I've been working in a particular platform so long that I've recently began to wonder if I actually still know how to code or whether I've just become particularly skilled at rearranging various snippets of code.
Whatever it is - the one thing I know for sure - I'm reasonably gifted at articulating my problem in a way that I can (usually) find the StackOverflow answer to solve the problem

not sure i know how to code

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tom hermans

That's not per se bad. Knowing a solution exists and looking it up is way better than solving a problem you shoudn't have to

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Anil Das • Edited

Hah. Everybody does this, so much so that Google actually put in a recruitment ad for people searching certain programming related queries.

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Yury

I rely on my IDE autocomplete so much I sometimes forget the standard library

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Sung M. Kim

Seems to work out for many React ⚛ devs.
And that's what's recommended by Dan Abramov 😛

click on the link in Dan's tweet