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Maybe its intentional, but you're actually making the opposite point of what you think, in my view?

All of the best programmers I know do not copy code, they try to understand first, and then apply what they learned. In this way, they use ChatGPT, SO, google, etc. the same amount for copy pasting code: Pretty much not at all.

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Good engineers reflect and avoid blaming. Generalizations and tribal thinking are bad habits. Stackoverflow, the internet, and a keyboard are tools to be mastered. Good engineers prefer to think for themselves no matter the tool they are using.

But Stackoverflow and especially ChatGPT enable bad engineers to pose as good ones.

So, the issue is more about the Social appearance of a successful engineer, not what good engineers are and how they behave.

The issue is that good engineers are harder to find because of bad engineers with better tools.

ChatGPT is like doping in sports.

> Generalizations and tribal thinking are bad habits.

If generalizations are bad, why do you immediately make one about tribal thinking (not to mention 'generalizations' itself)?

Tribal thinking isn't always bad; it's the same glue that holds families together.

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