Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Sahil Gaba, 33, was an entirely self-taught computer engineer with a mechanical-engineering background. Many new programmers who start in Gaba's shoes ...

Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, almost parted ways with Anthropic for good last summer. Instead, he has helped shape ...

I really stopped giving anything about formal education (on an individual basis), but I guess if I was about to hire a self-taught programmer I would see red flags if the candidate wouldn't have an ...

And even the prodigy self-taught programmers can have some glaring holes in their knowledge just because they have never run into a particular concept before. A CS (or similar) degree from a decent ...

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