Yes, but I'm talking about more then code review -- there is a ton of value in discovering all of the ways not to solve a problem. When reading 25 forum posts or whatever in trying to write some function, you're learning more then just the answer. You're picking up a ton of context about how these sorts of problems are solved. If all you're doing is reviewing the output of some code generator, your mental context is not growing in the same way.

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0x262d a day ago | parent [-]

I'm curious if you think the same thing was lost with the transition from reading man pages and first-party documentation to going to stackoverflow or google first (at least, I assume the former was more common a couple decades ago)

	▲	bigfishrunning a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What was lost in that transition was the required quality of that first-party documentation decreased; generally that first party documentation simply didn't contain enough information, so you needed to determine things empirically or read source code to get more information. I do think the culture of "copy-and-paste from stackoverflow" harmed the general competency of programmers, but having more third-party information available was only a positive thing.
	▲	newsoftheday a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Before 2022 age of modern AI, man pages, SO and Google all were the results of humans, not AI fabrication and hallucination.
	▲	coldtea a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A lot was lost then too.