Did you, as a kid, say to yourself "I want to be a total fucking loser when I grow up!"? Probably not, but yet here you are, cranking out strings of symbols to tell a computer what to do. How sad.
Software can be useful. Isn't that the whole premise of programming ? I mean you'd be contradicting yourself browsing a programming BBS, developing a taste for programming, and so forth, if you thought programming was completely useless. There is a whole lot of problems and planning that computers help sort out for various companies and organisations. They can mechanize a wide variety of tasks.
Please, can you say why programming would be useless ?