Honestly, the shittiness of Google and terrible LLM answers has just made me start reading docs more. In the past few years I think I've become a substantially

Honestly, the shittiness of Google and terrible LLM answers has just made me start reading docs more. In the past few years I think I've become a substantially stronger programmer because of this. So in a way, thanks Google for becoming shit and thanks GPT for being frustrating as hell. The problem is that sometimes doing things the hard way is the better way. I think learning programming, math, or any tough subject requires struggle. People like these things because it removes a lot of struggle but it more seems like this is a temporary advantage instead of a more long term one. My big concern is how we are becoming more and more addicted to instant gratification, at so many levels. Businesses are valuing quarterly profits above yearly. We've taken "ship early, ship often" to the extreme, as well as "move fast and break things." These are find adages, but like all things have limits. But the world gets more complex and as a result, solving problems becomes harder. You can't get away with first order approximations now and we're just building empires of technical debt. Too big to fail, too entrenched to compete against. But I still think, at some point, we have to say "fuck it, I'm doing things the right way, not the fast way."