I've seen approximately zero correlation between degree status and ability to write code. The best programmer I've ever worked with has a PhD... but so have at

I've seen approximately zero correlation between degree status and ability to write code. The best programmer I've ever worked with has a PhD... but so have at least two of the terrible ones. I also submit that if programming is "not exactly challenging" then you are working on the wrong products and/or at the wrong level of abstraction. There are legitimate reasons to prefer research, or management, or marketing, or sales over development, but lack of challenge is not one of them.