[tbrownaw]

> Sure, the code works, but ask why it works that way instead of another way? Crickets. Ask about edge cases? Blank stares.

"This is the worst code I've ever run."

"But it does run."

> I recently realized that there’s a whole generation of new programmers who don’t even know what StackOverflow is.

I also did not know about stack overflow when I started programming. Or even when I finished college and entered the workforce.

Because it didn't exist yet.

> Back when “Claude” was not a chatbot but the man who invented the field of information entropy, there was a different way to debug programming problems.

First, search on Google.

Google also did not exist until '98. By which point I'd already learned enough c++ from a physical book to write toys like a space invaders kind of game.

> Junior devs these days have it easy. They just go to chat.com and copy-paste whatever errors they see.

Juniors blindly copying code from StackOverflow used to be a standard complaint.