tl;dr: The Val Town founder argues that learning to code remains valuable in the LLM era, not for guaranteed six-figure jobs, but for the same reasons we study math or literature: it teaches meta-skills like debugging, composition, and logical thinking. He frames coding as a creative art akin to spell-casting—combining writing's creativity with math's precision—and notes that we don't dismiss the humanities just because LLMs can write English, so we shouldn't dismiss coding either.