monotremata@kbin.socialtoProgramming@programming.dev•What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?
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7 months agoMy favorite is “and there was some kind of error message.” There was? What did it say? Did it occur to you that an error message might help someone trying to diagnose your error?
Or it won’t happen when you’re watching, because then they’re thinking about what they’re doing and they don’t make the same unconscious mistake they did that brought up the error message. Then they get mad that “it never happens when you’re around. Why do you have to see the problem anyway? I described it to you.”