Yes, but copy/paste from stack overflow was a meme that was discouraged. Now we've got people proudly proclaiming they haven't written a line of code in months because AI does everything for them.

>And then finally doing some quick googling to validate the answers seem correct.

There will come a time when there won't be anyone writing information to check against. It'll be AI all the way down. Or at least it will be difficult to discern what's AI or what isn't.