I noticed there was some Twitter discourse over something DHH had written about not having looking things up and copy/pasting being your main skill. There was s

I noticed there was some Twitter discourse over something DHH had written about not having looking things up and copy/pasting being your main skill. There was some backlash and a lot of people responded emphatically that they look things up all the time and discouraging people from looking things up is bad, etc. I happen to agree with both takes and frankly I think if the people involved sat down and had a conversation, they probably would agree too. Looking things up is part of the job, but it is not the only part of the job and distilling programming down to “professional googling” is a disservice. I can look up what Bell’s Palsy is and read all I want, but it’s not the same as a doctor looking it up and reading about it. The same is true with programming.