This doesn't mean they aren't important though. In academia (not CS), but we use a lot of what's covered in the op MIT guide. I don't know if this gives an edg

This doesn't mean they aren't important though. In academia (not CS), but we use a lot of what's covered in the op MIT guide. I don't know if this gives an edge at all, and it's certainly 100x less important than soft skills, but there has to be some advantage to knowing how to pull a git repository or how to extract text matches from the command line without having to download or use an external application.