Being able to interface with a computer on an instruction level basically allows you to circumvent the mathematical limitations of our biological pattern matching apparatuses.
Learning to program is to thinking as learning to drive is to traveling.
Learning to program is to thinking as learning to drive is to traveling.
I'm not too worried about it. Some people need to cling to that iota of power that an inverted triangle can offer.
That comparison proposes that people who can't program have a huge mental deficit compared to those who can. There are plenty of programmers out there who are not particularly proficient at thinking, and plenty of extremely intelligent people who aren't programmers. It's a needlessly breathless and self-congratulatory comparison, with limited perspective on the outside world.