I never interpreted &quot;everyone should learn to code&quot; to mean &quot;everyone should get a job as a software developer&quot;. Coding is a highly useful skill that can be applied in many professions. It doesn&#x27;t mean everyone has to write professional quality software in the hottest language du jour.<p>&quot;Learning to code&quot; just means recognizing when a problem can be solved by applying a discrete series of repeatable steps and then learning how to tell the computer to do those steps rather than doing it yourself. The productivity boost we could get just by eliminating people manually copying and pasting (or, dear god, re-typing) things from one spreadsheet to another would be enormous, let alone other applications.