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Sure, or more likely having a CS degree or not does not strongly correlate with programming skill or software development skill.

Some people are good at programming, and do a CS degree to expand their capabilities. Some people do a CS degree solely for the career options (which to be clear is not necessarily bad). Some people didn't do CS degrees for whatever reason, but have thousands of hours in codebases, and know when to look up an algorithm or data structure.



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