"Don't learn to code" is bad advice

1. As if the learning alternatives people suggest aren't just basic common sense or generic project management skills.
2. As if today's AI could flawlessly code on its own and people could predict the exact point in time that flawlessly, fully unsupervised AI will be able to code autonomously.
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—bam, instant Steve Jobs—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 learning anything isn’t the PERFECT way to keep your brain active and healthy.
6. As if the need to understand how systems work under the hood was some fresh revelation for engineers, and now AI has made that curiosity totally irrelevant.
7. As if the best AI prompts aren’t written by people who know how to code.
8. 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.
9. As if learning should only serve your employer’s needs.
10. As if knowledge is only valuable when it leads to immediate financial gain.
11. As if AI will totally stop advancing once it gets perfect at coding, so your shiny "new learned skill" is definitely safe for the next decade.
12. As if you manage your time so perfectly that learning to code would steal precious hours from other learning - rather than, you know, eating into your Netflix or social media time.
13. As if endlessly doom-scrolling through X, fueling your anxiety with predictions about the future while numbing your mind, is any better than pulling yourself together and learning ANYTHING new.
14. As if a godsend CEO developing an AI solution would have a perfectly unbiased, down-to-earth take on the near future of human coding.
15. As if in today's accelerated rate of changes you needed more than a 10-year horizon guarantee to learn something new, before it eventually fades into oblivion.
16. As if delegating all your cognitive skills to AI won’t make your existence miserable.
17. As if learning anything for a living will even matter once we reach the Singularity.