Academia has a lot to offer with regard to: - fundamental principles and concepts, like paradigms, SOLID, coupling, cohesion, etc. - Maybe design patterns to

Academia has a lot to offer with regard to: - fundamental principles and concepts, like paradigms, SOLID, coupling, cohesion, etc. - Maybe design patterns too - and when and how to apply them - To paraphrase a famous author, how to avoid making "programming the act of putting bugs in software" - And since you can't really avoid it, debugging techniques. All of these require good logic and judgement - skills that you are better off having when talking with an AI.