I'm constantly telling a good friend of mine who is a co-founder of a start-up NOT to learn to code. He's absolutely brilliant in his field (a technical but non-CS field) and while he wishes he could code up his ideas I've directed him to developing flowcharts and spending time writing - his ability to think up new ways of doing things within his field is unparalleled. Personally I think he's a genius at what he does and I see that when he tried to code he stops focusing on what he does best. Even though he understand enough core computing concepts to design applications I think he's jealous of my ability to mock up a demo app, while maybe I'm just clever enough to not go down the rabbit hole of trying to learn everything about everything..