By “good” I mean code that is written professionally and concisely (and obviously works as intended). Apart from personal interest and understanding what the machine spits out, is there any legit reason anyone should learn advanced coding techniques? Specifically in an engineering perspective?
If not, learning how to write code seems a tad trivial now.
No. To specify exactly what you want the computer to do for you, you’d need some kind of logic-based language that both you and the computer mutually understand. Imagine if you had a spec you could reference to know what the key words and syntax in that language actually mean to the computer.