I'm actually seriously concerned that this may be the effect of the "anybody can be a programmer" phenomenon in industry. Because so many people have no formal training in computer science, you end up with all these hotshots who think they're doing amazing stuff, yet they're re-inventing the wheel, except what they're making is actually a cube instead of a cylinder/torus.

I can't tell you how many times I keep running into people who started out as script kiddies or child hobbyists, got a non-technical degree, and are now highly paid consultants who couldn't tell you what recursion or encapsulation are, let alone how to design databases to 4NF.