Knowing How to Google Is a Skill

971 comments I quit Tik Tok programmers are overpaid, all of my SE friends work less than half the time they are "at work" and google everything else Knowing how to Google is a skill. knowing what code to copy and where to put it is a skill. only ppl who get overpaid to google and copy paste think they are skills if its so easy then why don't u do it? I majored in mathematics. I needed more

A screenshot of a TikTok comment thread shows people arguing about whether programmers are overpaid and merely copy-paste code from Google. The punchline is the unfinished mathematical reply, which sets up a sarcastic comeback that coding requires specialized knowledge even when it involves searching and reusing code. It is used as a reaction to debates about programming difficulty, expertise, and the value of technical work.

• @ithueti / 8619 2023-01-13