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

Programming@programming.dev – 114 points – 4 months ago

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.

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I once had a friend who told me, that he finds it interesting that I think and write in 1s and 0s.

Confuse him with "I used to do that but I'm nonbinary now"

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