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It could be my bias but it seems a lot of inexperienced developers no longer read comprehensive books on topics but survive on Google, stack overflow, some documentation with examples/simple tutorials, blog posts and now Gpts.

All are useful tools but they are very poor in eliminating unknown unknowns like a book would.

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You think only inexperienced developers have stopped reading books?

That's fair, I bet it is more widespread, but people starting in the last 15-20 years did not even have the initial introduction. I read a lot, it surprised me to find out that it was atypical in an industry that is supposed to be somewhat about leveraging brainpower. May as well stand on the shoulders of giants.

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