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.

I mean the classic is that you must be “really good at computers” like I’m okay at debugging, just by being methodical, but if you plop me in front of a Windows 10 desktop and ask me to fix your printer; brother, I have haven’t fucked with any of those 3 things in over a decade.

I would be as a baby, learning everything anew, to solve your problem.

fuck printers
Yeah I feel this. Fucking huge mechanical boxes of fucking suite that should he lobbed down Tue stairs and anyone who wants to print should he beaten with toner cartridges till they are black and blue, or cymk