I have been able to do some algorithmic work in my 4 decades (mostly lately for generative art) but most of my career was How So I Ship This Complicated App Wit

I have been able to do some algorithmic work in my 4 decades (mostly lately for generative art) but most of my career was How So I Ship This Complicated App With Too Few People In So Little Time. This usually requires creative thinking and experience, but rarely requires advanced knowledge of many of the topics mentioned. I never had a CS education so I had to learn things myself, but it still makes sense to me today to understand complex topics; even if you never use them, being able to understand such things is a benefit to the complex things you will have to do.