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If you hit Ph.D. level, courses are an afterthought, and no longer a meaningful measure of the progress on your degree. The situation reminds me of the first d

• webmaven 10y ago
  > folks were getting hired to write web apps with little formal training Yes, well, at the time, most people with formal training wouldn't go near a web app project with a ten foot pole ("it'll all end in tears", they said). And old-school Unix hackers versed in Perl weren't necessarily any more likely to have a related degree. > I can only imagine the technical debt that is accumulating right now in the industry. Don't worry about it. Most technical debt will get wiped out with the failure of the company (usually for reasons unrelated to technical debt). Companies that survive will do so despite the technical debt, and will have the resources to rewrite things (hopefully avoiding Second System Syndrome). OTOH, I can only imagine the future pain that low quality DL software patents are going to cause when IP from failed companies gets sold off.