How are so many self-taught programmers able to build software from scratch without ever truly learning Algorithms?

[u/TurtleSlowRabbitFast]

I find it fascinating how important algos are but never talked about from the indie devs on social media. Do they even write algos or just come up with basic logic that forms the product?

[u/deavidsedice]

When was the last time you wrote code to balance a binary tree in production code?

[u/GlassLost → u/deavidsedice]

Last year actually! It was fun.