Code is the best medium for learning mathematics. Not because it makes math easier, but because it forces precision. A wrong assumption fails loudly, immediately, and without mercy.
This argument cuts against the current noise that AI makes coding skills obsolete. The claim here is structural: writing code builds meta-skills for learning itself, not just syntax for a specific language or framework.
The piece is short, but the thesis is worth sitting with. If the argument holds, then deprioritizing coding education in an AI era is not pragmatic adaptation, it is the removal of one of the few reliable tools for teaching people how to think.
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