Of course you have to understand how things work. But in terms of getting things done, search engines can be amazingly helpful. But if someone doesn't really

Of course you have to understand how things work. But in terms of getting things done, search engines can be amazingly helpful. But if someone doesn't really know how to code anything, doesn't that imply that they don't really understand how anything really works? Just because you know how to code doesn't mean you have to grind your gears doing root cause analysis on every obscure error message that bubbles up -- when about 80% of the time you can just paste the message into a search engine, and get a pretty good understanding within about 30 seconds. And save your precious grey matter-accessible calories for the other 20%. In fact, in many roles you'd be crippling yourself (and wasting your employers money) if you didn't know how to use search engines effectively.