Google search has been awful for years now. It’s back to reading documentation these days.
disgruntled_joe
This is pretty much all computer science professions.
X-Craft
any kind of office work involves that nowadays
Alucardhellss
As a mechanic I’ve just learnt I have the same job as a software developer!
dynamism6669
All search engines so ass todays, i can’t find shit for fucks sake.
Scary-Try3023
Software dev for two years now and I had to Google how to set up an angular/C#/entity framework app the other day because I was doing a learning project. If you don’t do it every day you can easily forget the most basic of things.
eternalityLP
My company uses github copilot, so I no longer even need to google, I just smash tab all day now.
oridjinn
When I made it HYPER clear to some people how much of my job was just “THIS” Critical thinking essentially.
They were still like “Yeah, That’s really fucking hard.”
There are a LOT of people who just do not WANT to think. Heck even within the network, server, developer worlds. There are those who are indeeed amazing at their craft and critical thinkers within thier craft, but a tiny line outside of it and BAM. They don’t want to think for a moment and just want to assume EVERYTHING is as it is.
From Engineers who want to make assumptions about AD environments when working on other pieces of the server infrastructure. Developers who don’t want to think about performance when solving an issue. To Network engineers who want to assume ALL the vlans are perfect on 200 other switches when making a change.
Then all 3 of them break the entire environment, bitch about how stupid the other person was for not doing it perfectly, and never learn.
My life is assuming EVERYTHING is wrong and broken, and working by accident. And then carefully checking and modifying.
MrZwink
You mean chatgpt prompt engineer?
pyracantha_
That’s what I always tell people when I’m helping them with technology stuff. It’s not just practical computer knowledge, it’s knowing what to Google to get an answer.
ThatITguy2015
For god knows what reason, the people born in 2000 seem to be losing this skill. That and/or how to search in general.
heeroyuy79
the amount of times i had to use an array in C++ or C# or something so i googled “HOW TO MAKE ARRAY IN *LANG*” because i occasionally just can’t remember how to do it correctly
makes me feel really silly that i keep googling simple things like that from time to time
Old_Particular_5947
Pretty much every engineer.
Except gone are the days where you need to look up a book to get guidance, thank fuck. Most of it’s digitised, occasionally you’ll need to seek out a hard copy of a niche paper or theory book.
Engineers rarely invent novel methods of doing something, you’re basically tasked at researching, understanding and applying a method that already exists to your current problem.
Implying that a good engineer is someone who works out everything from scratch or 1st principles is naïve.
Skeeter1020
Wording the search just right to get to the best Stack Overflow article is a genuine skill.
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Google search has been awful for years now. It’s back to reading documentation these days.
This is pretty much all computer science professions.
any kind of office work involves that nowadays
As a mechanic I’ve just learnt I have the same job as a software developer!
All search engines so ass todays, i can’t find shit for fucks sake.
Software dev for two years now and I had to Google how to set up an angular/C#/entity framework app the other day because I was doing a learning project. If you don’t do it every day you can easily forget the most basic of things.
My company uses github copilot, so I no longer even need to google, I just smash tab all day now.
When I made it HYPER clear to some people how much of my job was just “THIS” Critical thinking essentially.
They were still like “Yeah, That’s really fucking hard.”
There are a LOT of people who just do not WANT to think. Heck even within the network, server, developer worlds. There are those who are indeeed amazing at their craft and critical thinkers within thier craft, but a tiny line outside of it and BAM. They don’t want to think for a moment and just want to assume EVERYTHING is as it is.
From Engineers who want to make assumptions about AD environments when working on other pieces of the server infrastructure. Developers who don’t want to think about performance when solving an issue. To Network engineers who want to assume ALL the vlans are perfect on 200 other switches when making a change.
Then all 3 of them break the entire environment, bitch about how stupid the other person was for not doing it perfectly, and never learn.
My life is assuming EVERYTHING is wrong and broken, and working by accident. And then carefully checking and modifying.
You mean chatgpt prompt engineer?
That’s what I always tell people when I’m helping them with technology stuff. It’s not just practical computer knowledge, it’s knowing what to Google to get an answer.
For god knows what reason, the people born in 2000 seem to be losing this skill. That and/or how to search in general.
the amount of times i had to use an array in C++ or C# or something so i googled “HOW TO MAKE ARRAY IN *LANG*” because i occasionally just can’t remember how to do it correctly
makes me feel really silly that i keep googling simple things like that from time to time
Pretty much every engineer.
Except gone are the days where you need to look up a book to get guidance, thank fuck. Most of it’s digitised, occasionally you’ll need to seek out a hard copy of a niche paper or theory book.
Engineers rarely invent novel methods of doing something, you’re basically tasked at researching, understanding and applying a method that already exists to your current problem.
Implying that a good engineer is someone who works out everything from scratch or 1st principles is naïve.
Wording the search just right to get to the best Stack Overflow article is a genuine skill.
Modern problems require modern solutions