I don’t scoff at it, but I do think it’s kinda funny. It’s essentially the same skill as being a “google search expert” in the sense that you need to be able to

I don’t scoff at it, but I do think it’s kinda funny. It’s essentially the same skill as being a “google search expert” in the sense that you need to be able to correctly understand the problem, and craft a good enough query to generate the answer you’re looking for. It’s always sort of been a tongue-in-cheek claim that googling skills are a valuable software engineering asset, and even though that’s a perfectly legitimate assertion, it’s entertaining to see it emerging at its own “engineering” discipline.