> People dismiss college credentials as elitist gatekeeping, When you create entire artificial domains out of whole cloth, like "competitive programming", that'

> People dismiss college credentials as elitist gatekeeping, When you create entire artificial domains out of whole cloth, like "competitive programming", that's gatekeeping on steroids. No it isn't. Anyone can pick up a book or go to leetcode and learn to solve interview problems. I know multiple people who did it in their early teens.