[Uptrenda]

It's interesting to imagine adding something like this to an editors auto complete or as some kind of search function to automate functions you've coded a million times.

I.e. maybe you type: "repeat a function over a list python" in a special format and your editor pastes in the accepted answer from stackoverflow for you to choose whether that's acceptable / whether you want to use it as a template. Then maybe you could get into a better flow without ever having to stop what you're doing to Google something ... It would all just show up magically in your editor.

You could even have libraries of common answers written in such a way that you could write expected input and output formats and then get a code fragment that would fit that description. Something like a more organized test driven development. Though that would really only work for very specific things. Improve these ideas enough and make them more general - and maybe you could improve programmer productivity by quite a large margin.

Disclaimer: I know the OP was a joke but I see no problem with reusing code if you understand what its doing and the costs / trade-offs for doing so.

[lotkowskim]

There is something like that for JavaScript https://emilschutte.com/stackoverflow-autocomplete/

[hashhar]

Visual Studio has an extension by Microsoft called Bing Code Search which does exatcly what you want. It's really good.