[iovrthoughtthis]

Why is it stupid?

Instead of spending hours working to understand and implement a concept / fix. Get other people to do it for internet points.

Seems surpisingly “smart” to me.

It all depends on what you’re optinizing for.

[johannes1234321]

Maybe you are optimizing for fulfilling the current assignment, not for long-term efficiency. Next homework the professor will give out will takelonger than needed, since you only have the solutions, but no understanding.

[finnthehuman]

While your phrasing implies the "every once in a while I need external input on tricky things" end of the S.O. use spectrum, the parent post is gesturing at the "pants-on-head, you call yourself a professional?" low-tier use cases.

Overall throughput goes down when someone has to keep turning to external help. Even if they somehow manage to do many tasks in parallel to eliminate as much downtime as possible. And any design issue that requires having insight rather than a well-defined problem space goes unresolved and spirals into a bigger problem as more and more 90% solutions are bolted in.

It does depend on what you're optimizing for, but unless that includes turning over 100% ownership of the codebase, the "just give me the homework answer, don't try to make me understand" approach to problem solving is just shooting the team in the foot.

[raverbashing]

Sure, but the internet can't solve all your problems. Especially not for internet points