A woman I met (through one of my little machines), who made their own degree in Computational Biology, said something similar and I never forgot it. It's one of those things you feel is true but can't tell as a programmer if you're just tooting your own horn. Programming generically trains us to make things efficient and so much of being effective is being efficient.

Skill training does this generally I think. A friend went through law school and his wife (herself observant as a writer) says it changed the way he thinks. Not the way he thinks about the world and laws, but the way he thinks about anything and everything.

It reminds me of how LLMs in learning to predict the next string of tokens learn - as a side effect! - a model of the world.