Microsoft to all the students wondering whether it still is worth learning how to code, the answer is: Now…

Microsoft Learn, the company’s official training and certification arm, dropped a single line on X this week that walks straight into the most anxious question in tech education right now. “If you’re wondering whether it’s still worth learning how to code, the answer is: Now more than ever.” No hedge, no asterisk, no follow-up thread explaining what it really meant.Coming from Microsoft, the timing reads as either reassuring or slightly cheeky, depending on where you sit. This is the same company whose CEO told a room at Meta’s LlamaCon that 20% to 30% of the code sitting in Microsoft’s own repositories was already “written by software”. It is also the company whose CTO, Kevin Scott, has predicted 95% of all code will be AI generated by 2030. So the message to students is not that nothing has changed. It is that the change…