12 Reasons Why "Don't learn to code" is Bad Advice

1. As if the need to understand how systems work under the hood was something new to engineers, and now AI has made that curiosity totally irrelevant.
2. As if learning anything isn’t the perfect way to keep your brain active and healthy.
3. As if the "learn to be creative" advice were some plug-and-play skill you could unlock by taking a course or reading a book, instead of a process built through a blend of experiences and hard work over time.
4. As if problem-solving skills and algorithmic reasoning developed through coding don’t transfer to other domains.
5. As if the learning alternatives people suggest aren't just common sense or generic skills.
6. As if the best AI prompts & tunning aren’t written by people who know how to code.
7. As if, in a pre-AI world, the best programmers you know weren't intrinsically motivated to learn low-level computer science just because they coded in a high-level language, and now that they code in English, that will change.
8. As if learning should be confined to a box, valued only when it serves an immediate job-related purpose.
9. As if knowledge is only valuable when it leads to immediate financial gain.
10. As if AI will totally stop advancing once it gets perfect at coding, so a shiny "new learned skill" is definitely safe for a lifetime.
11. As if you manage your time so perfectly that learning to code would steal precious hours from other learning, rather than, eating into your Netflix or social media time.
12. As if delegating all your cognitive skills to AI won’t make your existence miserable.