I don&#x27;t think its the majority outside of Silicon Valley though. I am very far removed from the Valley so the examples given look nothing like I&#x27;ve personally seen anywhere but I can see how that can be the case in the Valley from what I hear&#x2F;see in the &quot;news.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve personally never seen anything that can be described as &quot;regurgitating the same CRUD for different customers&quot; in my career as a webdev and certainly not 90%. There is of course wiring standard components together but that&#x27;s surface level stuff, the guts are not standard components.<p>That&#x27;s just my experiences for what it&#x27;s worth.<p>And, yes, I&#x27;m very blessed to enjoy my job and believe me I don&#x27;t take that for granted.<p>Going back in the thread I honestly don&#x27;t think that reaching for Google and SO as your first impulse will deteriorate your ability to find your own solutions in the long run. Not by itself anyways. If the problem is standard then those are not problems you should be implementing your own solutions for anyways and Google&#x2F;SO are great for finding answers to standard problems. Copy-pasta is great for syntax and boilerplate code.<p>If the problem is not standard I learn from Google, I don&#x27;t just copy-pasta, I look at how other people have solved similar problems and use that as a basis of creating a new solution.<p>I can see how people who don&#x27;t <i>want</i> (or <i>can&#x27;t</i>) think for themselves can fall into the copy-pasta whatever they happen find without truly understanding. In that case Google&#x2F;SO isn&#x27;t the problem - it just makes the problem more visible. These people will never be good engineers.