I think it's tiring when an industry that has no physical things to break, adopts a saying that flippantly implies that other industries are slow simply because they're not irresponsible enough. I've had quite enough broken things, thank you very much.
Learning to code is smart? Astronauts, doctors, lawyers, bankers and other gazillion jobs be damned. Coding is the dumbest job in my opinion compared to PM, or journalism.
Could you survive the Ukraine war coding?
Learn to code. Or if you're not smart enough learn project management.
Alternatively stop using sayings in other peoples fields. Do something dumb like journalism.