It depends on how hard you push the envelope. The closer you get to doing something no one has ever done before, the more likely you are to be in your own.

Of course, any time you're doing something no one has ever done before, it's prudent to consider whether you should.

I'm old enough that when I was in school, teachers were telling us that we'd never have calculators in our pockets wherever we'd go.

Googling does become a hell of a lot easier if you know what the concept you're looking for is called.

"There is no point in reinventing the wheel" is my favorite saying when it comes to things like this.

If something has been done over and over again, there is no point in doing it yourself from scratch. It wastes time, money, and effort that could be spent on creating something new.

Humanity's greatest strength is being able to add to the previous generation's knowledge base, too!

If we had to relearn how to do the same things in the same way, in every generation, we would still be in the stone age...

When I manage folks, I expect them to steal if its already been done and especially if it's been done to death.

I've made it two decades in IT and related fields by searching for answers using Google. I accidentally took my laziness, love of automation, and ability to Google and became an SRE. Then I accidentally became a senior software engineer because the director on that side of the house liked my initiative and was sure my skills would translate. I protested but got a substantial bump to do it.

I'm failing upwards by abusing stack overflow and search engines.

I literally made money on a contract this year doing something I’d never even done. Thank you google. Love it

I can at least agree with the last line.

Don't use google.

Too bad Google search sucks now.

teachers dont say that

As someone who worked in tech support and a sys admin role, yes, and thank you. I would say 90% of all issues and problems I had were either solved or pointed in the right direction since 2006, the year I started.

Do teachers actually say this these days? Or are you making it up just for the sake of the meme.

Just don't google google. No laughing matter. You could break the internet.

Googling problems certainly helps but you still need enough knowledge to define the problem, Google it, and implement the solution.

I get the impression that a lot of posted solutions are from people who actually spoke to high level tech support for various hardware/software because how else would they know things like what obscure registry key with a very arbitrary name to add?

Google search results have become so bad i barely use it today. Its even better to use chatgpt. You have to take every answer with a grain of salt but usually it can give you a few options and give you resources to work with. Google search sucks ass. The amount of times i do NOT find what im searching for is way too high

Well, you need the basics of software development to start with. But sure, I'm not going to make my own implementation for every problem I come across. That would be insanity and a colossal waste of time.

However, people googling or using ChatGPT to create code they do not understand themselves, are just cargo cult programming, and it will bite them in the arse/ass (delete as applicable).

Im full time IT, a huge chunk of my job was learned through google. My current position looked incredibly different before we had phones and could research everything on the fly. I feel bad for tech's who didn't have access to research tools like we do now.

Your teacher was at least right about not using Google. Use literally whatever else

Searching does help, but hey, you have to know what to search for and then how to apply the findings.