[lordnacho]

Absolutely true. A lot of people think "cut-n-paste" is how people get code written, but the truth is you almost never find a snippet that is exactly what you want. It might be trivial like changing the name of the variable, or it might be some very small piece of a snippet you need, but the superpower isn't being to search for things, it's making sense of them and being able to reason about how to adapt it for your own case.

[8note]

I find SO gets contrasted with RTFM(read the manual) frequently, But i dont know which manual to read untill ive seen some SO answers

[Gigachad]

The difference in effort in inventing a solution vs verifying a solution is correct. Most of the stuff on stack overflow or the suggestions from copilot are wrong, but its the fact that you can usually read and know if it is correct and then you have been saved the time which would be starting from scratch.