practical benefits of programming?

have you guys made your own program? not a school project or something from a tutorial. nothing work related either. not hacking or sys admin related stuff either.

how would a normal person benefit from programming?

tl;dr uses of programming for non-professionals. I can't think of a way learning programming can help me, unless I was working at some company which required me to program

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you can say that now since computer use has become as common as the tv and telephone, but if you started 30 years ago I guarantee I could trick you into a lot worse than just deleting a system file