>Surely graduates of MIT, of all places, would be the ones building the libraries that ordinary programmers are stitching together and would still need the abil

>Surely graduates of MIT, of all places, would be the ones building the libraries that ordinary programmers are stitching together and would still need the ability to build complex systems from fundamental CS abstractions? "MIT" doesn't necessarily mean "super-elite programmer". I work in an office that's half MIT grads, and the non-MIT half are pretty much equivalently good (though with much worse connections around Cambridge). That's not to say MIT sucks or anything, but more to say that with luck, a really solid CS or EECS degree gets the student up to being able to build important components from scratch at all, which isn't necessarily the level needed to build those components from scratch for public release or for profit. That latter goal requires a good education followed by professional training and experience.