You may know me as the guy that makes weird songs on soundcloud, but lately,  I've been working with the Adobe Extendscript Toolkit to write automatons for graphic designers using Illustrator cs6.   This has led me to discover lots of cool new technologies.  First and foremost : JavaScript.  Is it possible that coding is going to ruin my creative impulse, suck the life out of me and leave me a shriveled up shell of my former self?  Maybe.  But a year ago I started watching MIT opencourseware videos on programming, started trying to program at least a little bit each day, and I feel I am on the road to doing scripting for a living.  Your results may vary.   If you are bored and sick of what you're doing for a living, I have to say,  I can't recommend programming enough.  If anything, I feel like thinking about tough problems and how to solve them will only make my other art, and music, better.