I want to chime in with a bit less negativity. Universities can really be a bit behind on CS compared to industry, and it's really hard to teach a lot of the pr

I want to chime in with a bit less negativity. Universities can really be a bit behind on CS compared to industry, and it's really hard to teach a lot of the practical stuff. You can absolutely get a lot more out of industry experience than school in that field, and the author seems well posed to do that with their intrinsic motivation to do this stuff. All the information is online these days. Universities are good at teaching things for two things: they guide you through the field in the right order and teach you what's important, and there's someone pushing you to do your work with deadlines and such. (Of course the value of universities is not just in the teaching/learning bit.) If you have the motivation for 2, and you have a good guide/job to do 1, then a unviersity might not offer you as much value.