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    3 days ago

    Tell me you’re not a programmer without telling me you’re not a programmer.

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      3 days ago

      I got almost 3 decades of writing software for money. I don’t need stack chatgpt overflow. I know some standard libraries by heart.

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        3 days ago

        Guess you just “know” all the new stuff coming out?

        I programmed for a living before stack overflow, and it was just less effective.

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          You can download docs once and refer to them pretty much. You can also download dependencies once and read their source code to figure out questions you may have.

          Like, sure, I need the internet to download new packages and tools and their documentation and stuff. I will concede this. But after that, I can live off the land.

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            Sure you can and we all had to live without nice things at a certain time, I had the Nintendo DS & Wii doc in physical text form (because NDA and so I guess), with only a handful of helpful people on the Nintendo forum. But that was invaluable, still remember that guy from Team17 helping me out because the audio was bugged in the console.

            I mean we can all motor through it and spend lots of time figuring it out, I actually like that 😁, but having access to the whole worlds shared knowledge is kind of nice too.