Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

Re:Stack Overflow is laying off another 28% by dmurray on Monday October 16, 2023 @02:20PM (#37903925)

I'm curious what kind of programming job you could have where you look up stuff less than 10 times a day.

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Re:Stack Overflow is laying off another 28% by ahoka on Monday October 16, 2023 @02:44PM (#37904251)

Something they are actually competent doing, I suppose.

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Re:Stack Overflow is laying off another 28% by lokar on Monday October 16, 2023 @02:55PM (#37904425)

That seems needlessly harsh.

But, generally, yes, I tend to know the details of what I'm doing already. If anything I might check some API docs for a library.

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Re:Stack Overflow is laying off another 28% by d3w4s9 on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:06PM (#37904613)

If much of your development is spent on implementing business logic in a language you are familiar with, and you have a decent IDE, I don't know what you use stackoverflow for at that frequency. Occasionally you may need to consult stackoverflow for a specific issue in string manipulation or API usage, but that's not something you run into a lot.

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Re:Stack Overflow is laying off another 28% by harshalizee on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:30PM (#37905055)

I rarely ever need to use SO on a daily basis. I've been programming on the .NET ecosystem for a while now and usually if I need anything I just directly go to the docs.

I used SO a lot when I was a junior engineer. Most of my issues now stem from biz logic or internal design that really can't be googled for.

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