> There are few problems that can’t be solved quickly by judicious browsing of Stack Overflow.
Only for the simplest of problems.
Only for the simplest of problems.
But also "if most of your problems can be solved by stack overflow" than you're either not solving hard problems, or, and this is much, much worse, you're not aware that you're facing hard problems with things like architecture and code organization, and solve them in a naive, straight-forward way, not even recognizing the future implications — and that, indeed, means that you're not a real programmer.
When I became experienced I prided myslf on the ability to solve simple poblems with nothing more than my knowledge of the language, frameworks, and occasional trip through the reference manual.
Eventually I realized it was just faster to google those questions as soon as I had them rather than try to remember or solve simple problems.
Stack Overflow is useful precisely because it lets me focus my mental energy on solving hard, "real programmer" problems like architecture and code organization.