Nah, Google made search unreasonably good at finding what users are looking for regardless of how poor the query was. Calling searching in Google a “skill” is similar to calling getting sucked into social media a skill.
It's really odd to me that pointing this out is used as some kind of counterargument. On its own that makes no sense.
Consider that the frequency of replies along those lines might be evidence that there's something to it. It's not necessarily true, of course, but if it's false then you need to explain why so many people believe otherwise.
Knowing how to search prompt Google became a skill among programmers, so has prompt/context engineering
Nah, Google made search unreasonably good at finding what users are looking for regardless of how poor the query was. Calling searching in Google a “skill” is similar to calling getting sucked into social media a skill.
It's different for programming, and especially evident when you are looking to solve a problem with an error message
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It's really odd to me that pointing this out is used as some kind of counterargument. On its own that makes no sense.
Consider that the frequency of replies along those lines might be evidence that there's something to it. It's not necessarily true, of course, but if it's false then you need to explain why so many people believe otherwise.