You're still making the mistake of equating Computer Science as a college major with software engineering as a profession. The two are not entirely distinct, but very different. Their overlap is not large, and mostly consists of "coding".
Filtering for autodidact programmers will certainly find you people who've more strongly focused on programming, possibly on software engineering, than on computing science.
However, when you need someone to tell you how to build a filesystem that's redundant to the Nth degree or when to use a decision tree construction algorithm instead of a naive Bayesian filter for data classification.... you'll need a computer scientist, and you'll damn well call for someone with a degree.
Filtering for autodidact programmers will certainly find you people who've more strongly focused on programming, possibly on software engineering, than on computing science.
However, when you need someone to tell you how to build a filesystem that's redundant to the Nth degree or when to use a decision tree construction algorithm instead of a naive Bayesian filter for data classification.... you'll need a computer scientist, and you'll damn well call for someone with a degree.