The programmer's equivalent is "what's the StackOverflow answer for how to do X with Y?". (e.g., Microsoft demonstrated some of their tech with a Stack Overflow Bot https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Samples/tree/maste... -- idk if anyone actually uses it though).

Sure, I should do it the "go fast by going slow" way and spend time to read the manual and go through the tutorial. But often I'll want to know something which many people will have asked.