>Ever heard a coder jokingly call themselves a "professional Googler" or "StackOverflow copy&paster"? It's just that--a joke. Any employed programmer who copy

>Ever heard a coder jokingly call themselves a "professional Googler" or "StackOverflow copy&paster"? It's just that--a joke. Any employed programmer who copy and pastes any significant amount of code from stack overflow is doing more harm than good. And googling a problem, looking at examples and modifying them to solve your particular problem is certainly not trivial. When AI can do that for arbitrarily complex problems, we have a lot more to worry about than out of work programmers.