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Sorry, I had to get the joke in first :)

"I’m a computer programmer... can you please tell me how my view of life’s origins contributes to my computing skills?"

First, the origin of life is not the ToE. Second. I'm also a computer programmer and due to the nature of some of my past projects (bioinfomatics) an understanding of the ToE was critical. So it depends on what you do specifically.

"In fact , because I’m a programmer and I know if i type one single character wrong, my software won’t function."

Would that be the case if you wrote in a language that only had 4 characters and 64 words all of which only contained 3 letters? Almost any error you could make would end up producing a valid word.

"yet i’m expected to believe that something as complicated as the biochemical software that is DNA sprang up spontaneously from nowhere"

Nobody says spontaneously, it "sprang up" from previous versions of similar "software". WARNING: we am in danger of using a poor analogy to the point of just being wrong.

[[Nobody says spontaneously, it “sprang up” from previous versions of similar “software”. ]]

And so on and so forth- Ad infinitum, eternal like, almost God-ish in nature, superceeding the laws of nature. Right.

First, the origin of life is not the ToE.

You are correct. ToE is essentially Darwin's theory with ad hoc adjustments and refinements.

But it doesn't answer the $64 thousand dollar question "what caused the creation and how"?

Information precedes specified complex creations. e.g. DNA first followed by new organism.

And in a broader sense even unspecified complexity, e.g. physical symmetry, requires specific physical laws.