People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own
As a coder I don&#x27;t think I can do anything without the internet. Even if one specific site (maybe there are two actually, SO and GH) were down, it would wreck my day and many of yours.<p>My style of coding is very intimately connected to having access to online resources. I regularly search for things like how to concatenate strings or the syntax of a for loop in some language. I also use the internet for higher level things like how memory management works on some system, or how something like an ECS architecture works. I also spend a lot of time looking for the right components to put into my own systems, so if GitHub were down it would bother me.<p>Basically I&#x27;d be useless without the internet. The coding tools themselves, all the examples of how to use them, and all the actual knowledge about how everything works is on there.<p>Perhaps the only thing that&#x27;s actually my own input is the judgement about what things are important, which sources are reliable, and which people are authorities.