I think we are in general agreement. While self taught developers have been around from the beginning, until a few years ago, most companies wanted only those w

I think we are in general agreement. While self taught developers have been around from the beginning, until a few years ago, most companies wanted only those with a CS degree regardless of what they were to actually do. DB admin - CS Degree; maintain a Wordpress site - CS degree; write ML algorithms from scratch - CS degree. It is changing now. Don't get me wrong; I see the value in CS knowledge having spent a lot of time learning it though never for any degree. All I am saying is that we need to recognize that a job requires a specific skill set and theoretical CS may not be it.