Yes, I rather my juniors cut and paste from StackOverflow because it means they are using a modern coding pattern and can learn from it and see great commentary about why this was the "chosen" pattern.
How else are we supposed to learn?
Same goes to all these clowns who champion one language/platform over another simply because of ego.
"...because it means they are using a modern coding pattern and can learn from it and see great commentary about why this was the "chosen" pattern."
Unfortunately it means no such thing. I have seen junior engineers search stack overflow and click for easiest/fewest lines of code with no regard to why.
You took the OP extreme view and countered it with your own which is equally biased. Let everyone just be honest about it is all.
How else are we supposed to learn? Actively thinking and engaging others when we don't know.
My view is that it's probably not wise to automate copy-pasting code from the internet. It easily leads to just that: copy-pasting and not thinking. I'm sure that this view is not that extreme really.
The demo didn't work so well that I could have verified this, and I might be mistaken, but it seems it just copies code from somewhere to the current file.
How does this help learning when one does not see the commentary from StackOverflow? That's my point exactly: if the tool automates the copy-paste, the comments are not visible.
How else are we supposed to learn?
Same goes to all these clowns who champion one language/platform over another simply because of ego.