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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I met a friend of a friend recently and they asked what I did and I told them I'm a computer systems engineer and they were like "oh you must be smart" and I was like "I like to think that I'm good at what I do, but trust me. I am not smart"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Like stoly said above, I think programmers are probably slightly above average intelligence overall, so don't sell yourself short there. But yeah. We're not geniuses