Once upon a Time

A programmer that goes through a book to look for an explanation on something, that goes to a library and does their own research using the local database viewer to search books by content and topic, that spends hours, days, weeks on this.

@retoor I'm talking about ye way long ago, back in 1998. Heheheh. Yes, the internet may be faster. GPT is still in development, of course.

Yep, it's like math teachers telling kids not to use calculators so they use their brain.

reverse evolution has been going on for a while now