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When I first started programming professionally a few years ago I, like any beginner, leaned heavily on Stack Overflow.

When I became experienced I prided myslf on the ability to solve simple poblems with nothing more than my knowledge of the language, frameworks, and occasional trip through the reference manual.

Eventually I realized it was just faster to google those questions as soon as I had them rather than try to remember or solve simple problems.

Stack Overflow is useful precisely because it lets me focus my mental energy on solving hard, "real programmer" problems like architecture and code organization.