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by pdxgene 3685 days ago
"Please don't learn to code" keeps echoing in my head as "Please don't learn to read and write music".

There's intrinsic value in understanding the technology on which our life now fundamentally depends, as well as value in the intellectual rigor and skill development that "learning to code" requires.

I worry that the ultimate end of the "don't learn to code" path looks likely something like Economics -- a sadly esoteric subject on which those ignorant of it are nonetheless dependent, to their detriment.