StackOverflow is good is some ways, but if you have a solid base knowledge of programming you shouldn't really be looking there all the time in the first place. It's a great website but it's also definitely made coders lazier.
Anyway, in his twitter TL he has an answer for a quip similar to yours:
> "people probably said similar things about books..."
Yup. Reading books has made people lazier, because if they had knowledge about [topic] they shouldn't be reading about it anyway.