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Rant: Overheard a senior dev say 'just copy from Stack Overflow' to a new hire
Heard this at a coffee shop last Tuesday, the new guy nodded but had no idea why the code worked. If you're learning, please actually read the explanations and test the snippets yourself, or you'll be stuck when the internet goes down for a day.
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campbell.david1mo ago
Used to think speed mattered more, but watching a junior completely freeze when a library update broke their copied code changed my mind. Understanding the fundamentals saves way more time than blindly copying ever does.
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claireo671mo ago
Oh come on, you really think reading every single explanation on Stack Overflow is the way to go? Half the time those explanations are wrong or outdated anyway. New guy needs to learn how to ship code fast, not debate the theoretical purity of some obscure function. He's a junior, not a professor. If the internet goes down for a day, he's got bigger problems than understanding a jquery snippet. Real learning happens when you're forced to fix something that breaks, not when you're copying a working block of code and overthinking it. Sometimes you just need to get the job done and move on to the next ticket.
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