> “Learn to code” is, after all, used as a pejorative against people in famously less stable fields, like journalism.

FWIW, most of the people who repeated that cliche were not programmers. It's odd that some journalists are still bitter about being belittled with that phrase by randos on social media.

The article continues with cliched economic analysis, my commentary on which I will elide. Instead, I will point out that the big man himself wrote about starting a startup during the early part of the Great Recession: <https://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html>: "The truth is more boring: the state of the economy doesn't matter much either way."