Spoken like someone who has never personally witnessed somebody fail to learn to code.
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Possibly, but they can’t exercise that meta-skill arbitrarily. You cannot just yell at someone “make your brain do the thing that makes you understand this!” and expect magic to happen.
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Translating very direct instructions into a particular syntax is probably something that can be taught to anyone. "Write an if-else statement in Python that..." Sure. "Solve Fizzbuzz without having someone else do it for you" is much trickier, and you don't practice for it.
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Feels relevant (and any excuse to link to it...) https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-talents/ …
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