>friend asks me to teach him how to kode so that he can get a job as a software engineer
>we come to recursion, ask him to create a fibonacci function to demonstrate the technique in action
>"Anon, what is the point of this? When will we ever use this in real life?"

I don't know what to say to this. I explained that this pattern is observable in nature and finance but he seemed uninterested. What do you say to people when they ask those "when will I use math in real life" questions?