I can see how it would be true of normal programmers though -
Computer science courses usually teach something very different from every day programming. You learn linear algebra, AI, dynamic programming.
Then you go to work and spend 10 years mostly not doing those things. They are generic, and there are libraries for generic things - you just need to understand how they behave.
A decade later, most people will only retain the specific techniques they use in their domain. Maybe you know more than you ever did about indexing algorithms, but the math behind the deep learning algorithm you wrote at college is gone.
Computer science courses usually teach something very different from every day programming. You learn linear algebra, AI, dynamic programming.
Then you go to work and spend 10 years mostly not doing those things. They are generic, and there are libraries for generic things - you just need to understand how they behave.
A decade later, most people will only retain the specific techniques they use in their domain. Maybe you know more than you ever did about indexing algorithms, but the math behind the deep learning algorithm you wrote at college is gone.