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> Occasionally someone (usually at work) will ask “why do you know that?” or “how did you learn how to do that?”

This comes up a lot from business people, and I think at least one answer is because learning to program is a master class on how to break down a problem into actionable parts, while also considering as many failure and unexpected scenarios as possible. For many business jobs, that might be a full time job for one person who focuses only on one specific area. When someone trained in programming just “gets it” right away, it can be unnerving.

I think this is one reason there can be so many disconnects between IT and Business—the stuff IT does is just so magical they can’t understand it at all, and as a result don’t care if that magic comes from a local employee, an overseas one, or an AI.