What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? - Lemmy

As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren’t as familiar with it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do. - I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.

A lot people compleatly overrate the amount of math required. Like its probably a week since I used a aritmetic operator.
On the other hand in certain applications you can replace a significant amount of programming ability with a good undertstanding of vector maths.