Out of curiosity, is there a sizable number of developers that just copy and paste untrusted code from StackOverflow into their applications?
The conjecture that people just copy from StackOverflow is obviously popular but I always thought this was just conjecture and humor until I saw someone do it. Don't get me wrong, I use StackOverflow to give me a head start on solving a problem in an area I'm not as familiar with yet, but I've never just straight copied code from there. I don't do that because rarely does the snippet do exactly and only exactly what I need. It requires me to look at the APIs and form my own solution from the explained approach. StackOverflow has pointed me in the direction of some niche APIs that are useful to me, especially in Python.
The conjecture that people just copy from StackOverflow is obviously popular but I always thought this was just conjecture and humor until I saw someone do it. Don't get me wrong, I use StackOverflow to give me a head start on solving a problem in an area I'm not as familiar with yet, but I've never just straight copied code from there. I don't do that because rarely does the snippet do exactly and only exactly what I need. It requires me to look at the APIs and form my own solution from the explained approach. StackOverflow has pointed me in the direction of some niche APIs that are useful to me, especially in Python.