So what about the students and people in college?

Here’s the situation: I’m in my mid-30s, never really had the chance to study or go to college. In September last year I enrolled in an undergraduate degree, which can eventually lead to a bachelors, in coding/programming. Reading HN, I see nothing but talk of doomsday, doing something entirely different, total abandonment of writing and engineering code. Obviously this is somewhat worrying to me, on the other hand: would you really not advise anyone to learn how to code these days? I must admit I don’t have any dreams of becoming a software developer; and a big part of me doing these classes is to learn a new skill I’m interested in (with the hopefully added bonus of some extra financial gain in the future). So I wonder: would you discourage anyone to head into coding in this day and age?