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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] candyman337 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The speed at which it takes to make something. We had a vulnerability with a JavaScript library in an old app that I do minimal support on, I said that it only uses like 3 or 4 libraries, so depending on what it is the whole frontend may need to be re-written. IT: "Ok well we have to get that expensed." Sure bro let me just bill the client that is paying for it and error support 20k for new dev time. Nah, the fix is gonna have to be a workaround on your end, we do not have the bandwidth and they don't have the capital.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah, the fix is gonna have to be a workaround

Ah, yes. The "do nothing but cross your fingers and pray it doesn't bite you in the ass" workaround.

[–] candyman337 2 points 9 months ago

No, one part of the fix would be an access policy limited to their network or via VPN. Security is part IT and part dev