“You don't need to know everything. You need to know how to find everything.”
This is the knowledge in the head vs. in the world thing from Design of Everyday Things - if the knowledge is easily accessible in the world you will naturally keep it there not in your head. Maybe Google/LLMs are so fast this is the result.
One of the reasons I hate interviewing for software jobs is that the logic seems to be the opposite of this, and instead you should have any possible esoteric concept or possible problem ready at the top of your head instantly. And the same idea now with not allowing LLM for technical interviews
This is the knowledge in the head vs. in the world thing from Design of Everyday Things - if the knowledge is easily accessible in the world you will naturally keep it there not in your head. Maybe Google/LLMs are so fast this is the result.