You can still get value from a CS degree, it's just not an automatic pass to get into the industry. For what it's worth, I also skipped uni (this was 25 years

You can still get value from a CS degree, it's just not an automatic pass to get into the industry. For what it's worth, I also skipped uni (this was 25 years ago) and went straight into the industry. I'm not as talented as many, particularly in things like algo design but much of the day to day programming in Australia is fairly straightforward.