Business/career implications aside, normalizing people thinking about computers as tools that execute arbitrary instructions is an almost purely good thing.
I can't think of many other social trends that would be more beneficial for increasing general support for user agency, data interoperability, sideloading/modding, etc... we should applaud every single attempt to democratize coding and lower barriers of entry.
It's not about whether or not someone can replace your job or whether or not they take something that's a hobby project or an occasional side-task at their job and turn it into a professional career. It's not about whether or not the things they make are any good. It's about giving them a little bit more agency in how they interact with devices/software, and about reinforcing to them that as a user they should have agency over their devices/software.
We don't need everyone in the world to be an engineer, and we don't need everyone to write good code. The goal is not to make everyone into a programmer, or to elevate engineering as some kind of universal subject that everyone has to embrace. But it is good for average people who aren't engineers to be embracing a philosophy about computers that says, "I should be able to arbitrarily describe to this thing what to do, even if its designers didn't think about my use case, and it should do the thing I tell it to".
I can't think of many other social trends that would be more beneficial for increasing general support for user agency, data interoperability, sideloading/modding, etc... we should applaud every single attempt to democratize coding and lower barriers of entry.
It's not about whether or not someone can replace your job or whether or not they take something that's a hobby project or an occasional side-task at their job and turn it into a professional career. It's not about whether or not the things they make are any good. It's about giving them a little bit more agency in how they interact with devices/software, and about reinforcing to them that as a user they should have agency over their devices/software.
We don't need everyone in the world to be an engineer, and we don't need everyone to write good code. The goal is not to make everyone into a programmer, or to elevate engineering as some kind of universal subject that everyone has to embrace. But it is good for average people who aren't engineers to be embracing a philosophy about computers that says, "I should be able to arbitrarily describe to this thing what to do, even if its designers didn't think about my use case, and it should do the thing I tell it to".