&quot;Please don&#x27;t learn to code&quot; keeps echoing in my head as &quot;Please don&#x27;t learn to read and write music&quot;.<p>There&#x27;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 &quot;learning to code&quot; requires.<p>I worry that the ultimate end of the &quot;don&#x27;t learn to code&quot; path looks likely something like Economics -- a sadly esoteric subject on which those ignorant of it are nonetheless dependent, to their detriment.