Do it if you're stoked on development and you're cool with being the ignorant one for a while. I dropped out of Econ PhD program at Duke after third year cause I thought software development was my dream and its been great.
wow. I would love to get an Econ PhD from Duke. How does it feel to change from being pretty knowledgeable in Economics to being completely ignorant in programming?
What interests me most about your comment is that you are not even the second person I have heard of that dropped out of a PhD at Duke. Was it your advisor?