Disagree. What we call coding today will have virtually nothing in common with what they call coding, if they do at all, at the end of the 21st century.
Just look at tools like Parse or Visual Studio Code Search. The future is going to be very, very different from the present.
This isn't always the case in CS. It is often more advantageous to your career to not take time off. Granted, someone can get a masters while working, but it's often for the purpose of a career change or promotion into a specific category of position.