Comment by soraminazuki

That says more about the industry than the quality of formal education. After all, it's the very same industry that's hailing mediocre robots as replacements of human software engineers. Even the article has this to say:

> As a mid-late career coder, I’ve come to appreciate mediocrity.

Then there's also the embracement of anti-intellectualism. "But I don't want to spend time learning X!" is a surprisingly common comment on, er, Hacker News.

So yeah, no surprise that formal education is looked down on. Doesn't make it right though.