In my opinion there would be two benefits to widespread coding literacy. The first one is that a wider range of people get in touch with the concept of programm

In my opinion there would be two benefits to widespread coding literacy. The first one is that a wider range of people get in touch with the concept of programming and can consider it as a career option. This would IMO also help diversity. This does not mean everybody has to make a career of it, just like with all other subjects. The second benefit would be that a lot things people do manually right now could be helped along by simple ruby or python scripts. If more people had that tool on their belt, they could use it when it's beneficial for them. They don't have to be a full-time dev for that.