Algorithms are public knowledge, commodities to be written and rewritten at will by common, workaday developers. I don't think the article is talking about sor

Algorithms are public knowledge, commodities to be written and rewritten at will by common, workaday developers. I don't think the article is talking about sorting a linked list. Clever and non-trivial algorithms are being researched and discovered everyday both in academia and the industry (take ML as an example). Programs = Algorithms + Data (Structures). You can have a competitive advantage on either or both.