I find the difference between "self-taught" and not almost laughable. Even if you have a post graduate degree in computer science to stay current and succeed in

I find the difference between "self-taught" and not almost laughable. Even if you have a post graduate degree in computer science to stay current and succeed in the field you will have to be particularly good at self teaching concepts, tools, frameworks, and everything revolves around being able to learn things on your own. Sure being taught more traditionally is very helpful for understanding underlying and foundational concepts but just saying someone is or is not self taught because they have a degree seems to not make a lot of sense. This probably relates back to why even a large part of those in degree programs struggle in the field if they don't have the self-teaching ability then even after earning a degree they won't succeed.