Yep, everyone I know who isn't already involved in creating software, including a number of people I know who do jobs that I think of as being actually-hard, th

Yep, everyone I know who isn't already involved in creating software, including a number of people I know who do jobs that I think of as being actually-hard, thinks it seems really hard and magical. Like, not the job aspect of it that we're mostly discussing here, but the "writing the code that makes computers do all this stuff" part, that probably strikes 95% of the people reading this thread as pretty easy at this point. It's just that it's easy to do things you already know how to do.