When does the state of “self-taught” developer end? After some set amount of time? After you earn a set amount of money? How do you verify that? How do you make

When does the state of “self-taught” developer end? After some set amount of time? After you earn a set amount of money? How do you verify that? How do you make sure the “self-taught” developer isn’t using the tools for a well-paying job and not for learning? For students, this is limited by the access to their .edu e-mail address, which is often cut after graduation. GitHub Copilot is a purely optional tool you can live without with (and that I personally don’t find worthy of the $10/month price tag). Many other things are free (VS Code, IntelliJ IDEA Community), and you can be quite productive with that. And speaking of JetBrains tools, you can get a free license if you’re an open-source developer.