Zapa  

To the software developers, coders, programmers, scripters, etc. is it normal to be spending more time Googling things than actually coding? Is this normal for development?

I’ve been developing a working email security product and seems like I’m spending more time Googling coding shit and reading stack overflow than anything else.

Mar 7 at 8:47pmWeb
Show threadɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋMar 7
@trojanfoxtrot I don't know how it is now with how search engines are now just latest news and product offers, but it used to be perfectly normal back when search worked. Plus a lot of paper books, manuals, references, RFEs, and man pages. And domain experts if you can talk to any. Programming is mostly about figuring out what you need, not coding.
Show threadZapa  Mar 7
@deshipu thank you for the input!! I hate the search engines now how they bubble up AI dummaries that don’t really help. I haven’t done any programming in about 7 years, and it was all about just reading up on forum posts and man pages. Glad that things are still somewhat normal.
Show threadEliza SwanMar 7
If you're doing something _new_to_you_, the it's totally normal to be spending at least half your time on research. How else would you figure out how to do it?

:-)

@trojanfoxtrot