I'm ashamed but it works

Uhm, I meant *it

Yes and no. You could quite easily find the information to fly a plane, but if you found out your pilot had said or implied they could fly, and found out in the air they were YouTubing it as they went along, how would you feel about that? If they landed safely would you knowingly and willingly get on the same plane again for the return trip? Anyone can use quora and buy some engineering text books, but if you’ve ever worked with engineering students with enough knowledge to be dangerous but not enough to realize how to apply that knowledge in real life, you know that just having information isn’t always enough. Tools help, but if you find yourself constantly relying on a tool, not because you are incapable of doing what it does (electron microscope,). Or because it makes unskilled labor much simpler (jack hammer, stapler), then you’ve reached a point where it would be a personal investment in yourself to learn a skill. It doesn’t hurt to run spell check on an email even if yoy spell...

.... well, but I get plenty of spell checked emails where prepositions, plurals, possessives, tenses, etc. are used poorly or outright incorrectly, and having to run every short email through a grammar processor seems like a waste of productivity on a basic skill. In the end, if the “magic” isn’t coming from you, you lose value. There is someone else who can do the job without it, and the more you rely on a third party or automation to fill your weak points, the easier it is to find someone to replace you since only X% of what you produce is actually you. If you’re highly skilled in your field, or if you posses a job that deals on the high level, it only makes sense you wouldn’t get bogged in low level detail. But all in all one must be selective and differentiate between a crutch and a reference.