I've only worked with two self-taught devs, so take it for what it is, but my experience has been very negative. In short, strong Dunning-Kruger effect.
Both were very well capable of setting up a cookie-cutter system using whatever framework just fine, better than I can, but didn't really understand any of the fundamentals. The world would just have to adapt to them and the way they use their tools.
More problematic though, was the way in which they felt they had to put anything remotely academic or theoretical down, including me, in a misguided attempt at self-validation and ego-boosting. This kept them from improving.
Then again I've met a fair few dipshits with degrees too.
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I've only worked with two self-taught devs, so take it for what it is, but my experience has been very negative. In short, strong Dunning-Kruger effect.
Both were very well capable of setting up a cookie-cutter system using whatever framework just fine, better than I can, but didn't really understand any of the fundamentals. The world would just have to adapt to them and the way they use their tools.
More problematic though, was the way in which they felt they had to put anything remotely academic or theoretical down, including me, in a misguided attempt at self-validation and ego-boosting. This kept them from improving.
Then again I've met a fair few dipshits with degrees too.