As a programmer, I am often required to tell higher-ups that their suggestion of first-name, last-name fields is not a good way to store names of arbitrary humans. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) wrote a useful essay elaborating on this called Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, which I think is good and useful—though not to be taken without some interpretation.
Please do not title your own listicle Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X. Reserve that prefix for this essay and invent your own snappy title.
