We are a long way from diluting the IT labor pool to the point where it systematically depresses wages. Assuming some sort of relationship between potential ta

We are a long way from diluting the IT labor pool to the point where it systematically depresses wages. Assuming some sort of relationship between potential talent as a programmer and natural attraction to programming, then programming is already tilted toward the talented. Trying to recruit more programmers with early-education programming is going to add more mediocre/bad programmers than good ones. And you need the good ones. Work that can be done by mediocre programmers will eventually be replaced by software doing what they used to do - software written by the more talented programmers. And the supply of good programmers is necessarily limited.