There is a weird sort of analogy where universities spent the last 20 years putting their classes online, or associate professors and grad students uploaded You

There is a weird sort of analogy where universities spent the last 20 years putting their classes online, or associate professors and grad students uploaded YouTube deep-dive videos, etc. Point is, enrollment at Universities are way down now and you could probably draw some kind of link between the two. However, there are also links between jobs that no longer care, and GenZ is a smaller cohort, and also maybe more of an interest in trades as a path forward. I'm not suggesting the paper linked here is right or wrong, but we should keep an open mind about all the other potential reasons why things suddenly shift. One random reason could be that during this overly oppressive year of layoffs engineers have either stopped needing to search or haven't had time to work on a project that needed it. Also there's smarter IDEs which are likely the #1 reason I've stopped searching the internet for one-off small things like "what's the API to deep copy an array in Rust." Documented autocomplete has gotten really good and things like copilot are just icing on the cake.