The thing about the situation is you have a wide variety of knowledge types. Notably some knowledge can be verified pretty easily and some knowledge (or claims)

The thing about the situation is you have a wide variety of knowledge types. Notably some knowledge can be verified pretty easily and some knowledge (or claims) is quite hard to verify, it rests on experiments, hard gain expert knowledge or the testimony of single individual. Programming information tends to be easily verified so organizing it's skill around filtering google, stackoverflow and so-forth is fine. The resulting program can be tested fairly easily. Uncritically taking in other sorts of claims can be very problematic.