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I couldn’t agree more. And I must say, now that it’s being used as a bridge between technical and nontechnical talent it’s becoming ever more vital from a career perspective. Most people recognize the value of fundamental coding skills and if you’re even just above average at coding in a non-CS field, you seem magnitudes more valuable than you really are. In both industry and research, ears immediately perk up when they realize I have a background in economics but competencies in coding beyond the standard regressions in R that everyone does in econometrics. It’s hilarious because as mentioned prior, I’m rather pathetic compared to most people on this forum.