If i see a doctor look up something I immediately trust them more. It shows that they are open to more that the bare minimum and willing to learn if needed.

Googling stuff online doesn't make you a programmer either. You still have to learn it, know how to apply what you look up, understand how the computer works. Although it's easier to learn by yourself, at least partially because there are no lives at stake.

And doctors look up plenty of stuff too. Only a fool would think they already know everything.

Extremely talented expert programmer with 30 years experience: "I need an API for the Windows registry that's accessible in perl syntax within the Android 8.5 OS, and it's got to be written in Chinese"

Zero Results

College dropout with two years at Best Buy who got the job from his uncle: "How make phone edit WimOSreg fewest characters chinglish"

1879563822560 results, answer in first screen

Doctors regularly Google stuff. Their training isn't in memorizing everything, but in contextualizing data, making decisions based upon the evidence and risk, and communicating that decision to the patient in a way that the patient can understand while allowing the patient to maintain bodily autonomy.

When patients Google symptoms they have no understanding of the disease, it's prevalence in the community, it's long term effects, and it's risk profile. It's why medicine uses scientific data to make decisions but not a science itself.

When I code, I feel like Joey from Hackers.

"So I'm in this thing, I don't know what it is or where it is and I'm just throwing commands at it to see what happens..."

TBF there are plenty of programmers who aren't good programmers, but keep their job because rarely does anything they do actually affect someone's physical health.

The more I learn the less I use google.
Mainly because google is getting worse but still.

"Programmers" who google+copy+paste most of their code are not programmers (yet) they are Script Kiddies... they are programmers in training

I mean , if they look on dark web they can also get body for practice 😃

I've a couple of GP friend who used to describe "Dr Google" as their online colleague.

The point being, they were somewhat trained in interpreting risk as opposed to the stereotypical googler-of-symptoms. Once upon a time search engines were quite useful.

I was a developer for only a short while. It was from about 2003-2005. My memory is hazy on when. I did web based Java and PHP stuff (as well as being the DBA since I went to college for that). Even then, maybe 80% of what I did was just ripping stuff off from forums. I finally quit after I realized that my programming hobby made me want to stab my eyes out if it was a 9-5.

https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

Have you tried turning him off and on again?

But we know that doctors watch YouTube tutorial videos ;-)

You gotta google it offline for the best results

Programming and being a doctor are different things. This comparison makes no sense.

Yeah, but AI does!