> developers most willing to guess about how code works, copy and paste googled code, and push others to feed them answers instead of doing research on their ow

> developers most willing to guess about how code works, copy and paste googled code, and push others to feed them answers instead of doing research on their own are considered to be the top developers because they 'get things done'. My guess would be that they're able to abstract out and isolate functionality they don't need to fully understand to work on the core code they need to write to get the job done. In modern systems there are so many frameworks, libraries, platforms etc. that if you try to gain a detailed understanding of them all you don't get anything done. The core skill in modern engineering is knowing how to proceed with incomplete knowledge.