You store gold reserves at banking/trading/stock exchange hubs, so that it can be easily exchanged for foreign currencies - especially without actually moving it. This way you have access to funds in case your own currency is in trouble (e.g. your country is at war).
People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.
I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don’t really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.