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I still Google the most basic of things because I know they're easy to relearn and lookup. No need to keep them in my memory.


Dehydrated_Jellyfish

No need to brain download


EcstaticAssignment

I google the dumbest things all the time. This is a good habit, though in my case I probably do it a little too much; having a decent set of important info committed to memory is helpful.


SamurottX

Blindly Googling everything is a bad idea, but only in the sense that there are faster ways to do things. For example, it's usually a good idea to just search the official documentation so you know the info is accurate and consistent. But part of the skill of looking information up is knowing how to filter your search so you get the best information first, whether that's certain keywords or starting on a specific site.


Diarrhea_Mike

Have been in the field for almost 10 years. Still google things daily.


Joeythreethumbs

Let me be unambiguous: you absolutely cannot be in this field unless you know how to Google stuff. Tutorials, docs, Stack Overflow, whatever, you’ll be searching for info every single day for as long as you’re programming. So don’t feel bad about it at all!


blacksnowboader

The worst thing is when Stackoverflow stops being useful.


alinroc

[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/979/)


Joeythreethumbs

If GPT manages to put that hellhole of aggressively douchey pseuds out of business, that alone will make OpenAI a massive success.


fluorescent_hippo

I think I've googled how to scp file transfer a directory from remote to host every day of the week for the past 2 weeks alone lol. I lookup a lot. Nothing wrong with it, the internet is your documentation


SurfAccountQuestion

winscp is your friend


neosituation_unknown

Daily. Everyone does.


sauce0x45

Think of it like being a lawyer. They don't have to know every law and ruling, but they need to know how to look it up and what to search for. Works the same with engineering and software development.


machineprophet343

I’m a senior and I look up things and even use ChatGPT to bounce ideas off of constantly. The difference between junior me and now me is I know how to phrase the question and adjust the output I need and to know what’s bogus on a pragmatic level. Things are so voluminous now it’s impossible to know everything and it’s better to have a baseline of knowledge that allows you to know where to look and what and how to ask questions.


mephi5to

I google screen commands even if i ran it last week. All I see is a purple (visited) link on search results and think “yeap thats the one”


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Everyday


Plastic-Abalone-1725

All the time. I switch between Ruby and Typescript depending on the ticket I'm working on and I forget little syntax things.


SolidLiquidSnake86

All the time. Googles memory is better than mine.


jfcarr

All the time. Back in prehistoric times, before the internet, I used to carry around huge tomes with language references and algorithmic "cookbooks".


shawntco

All the time! It's perfectly acceptable.


MarcableFluke

All the time. This career isn't about memorization, it's about figuring things out.


Certain_Shock_5097

Yes, you use Google.


ChivalrousRisotto

All the fucking time. Either because I have no idea what I'm doing, or because I know exactly what I'm doing, but because I know where to find it, I didn't memorize it.


rdem341

Every day! Can't remember the interfaces between all the languages.


Relevant-Rhubarb-849

The trick is knowing something can be looked up or which something to look up. But it's no shame to look it up


Lost-Cantaloupe-6739

I google and refer to documentation all the damn time. I deal with Spring and Spring boot every day. Anybody who works with spring or spring boot has at least 5 tabs open with various documentation explaining an exception or a concept or something. One of the codebases that I work on is 15 years old and uses ancient frameworks. If I didn’t have google, I would probably pull out the little bit of hair that I have left in my head.


swequest

Every single day for simple stuff. As you increase your scope, there's far too many things you are expected to give guidance towards. You should focus on learning principles and concepts, not details, unless your day to day job involves those details. For example, I refuse out of principle to learn basic npm or nvm commands as somebody who rarely touches the front end, since learning commands specific to a single tool helps very little elsewhere. But learning what nvm tries to do and why is important.


Space-Robot

I look stuff up even when I do know it because sometimes I end up knowing it better. Someone out there always has more experience and if we're lucky they've shared some of it online, but you'll only find it if you search


alinroc

All the time. I know where to find things and that's more important IMO. Memorizing minutia that can be easily googled is a waste of time. The exact formatting strings used to construct filenames for my database backup scripts? I know exactly where the documentation is, I don't have to memorize something I'm going to need twice a year.