Ask HN: Are top developers just guessing?

Ask HN: I graduated with my undergraduate CS degree about a year ago and landed a job with a mid-sized company that provides engineering services. While attending school I came to believe that top developers are people interested in learning everything they can about development - and I liked the idea of working with such people. However, the reality that I've experienced is that the developers most willing to guess about how code works, copy and paste googled code, and push others to feed them answers instead of doing research on their own are considered to be the top developers because they 'get things done'. Has anyone else experienced this? If I want to succeed, do I need to stop caring about solving problems and start caring about getting as many lines of code out the door as I can? Is it like this everywhere? I've hit some real lows during the last year because of this attitude so any feedback is be appreciated.