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submitted 10 months ago by gianni@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev

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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[-] thtroyer@programming.dev 19 points 10 months ago

Based on some places I used to work, upper management seemed convinced that the "idea" stage was the hardest and most important part of any project, and that the easy part is planning, gathering requirements, building, testing, changing, and maintaining custom business applications for needlessly complex and ever changing requirements.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 19 points 10 months ago

That you can mix and match bugfixes like lego blocks an hour before release.

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago
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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago

That I'm in any way smart or good at math

[-] anzo@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

Just 2 days ago some friends thought that I could get any job from the huge pool of available jobs out there...

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The files are IN the computer.

[-] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 10 months ago

I was at a party explaining that we were finishing up a release trying to decide which bugs were critical to fix. The person that I was talking to was shocked that we would release software with known bugs.

When I explained that all software has bugs, known bugs, he didn't believe me.

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