"anyone can learn to do it"
"Higher than average IQ and passionate interest is all that's needed"
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Given a few hours & Google access, some people who've never written a line of code in their lives will be able to figure out how to solve FizzBuzz, and some will not. If you just *tell* them how to do it & they write the code, they've become a syntax-translator, not a programmer.
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At the real higher end it can be nearly instant. Exposure to a simple program that uses enough parts to solve Fizzbuzz leads to sight decoding and then you can solve Fizzbuzz. Maybe the existence of variation in talent is also more obvious if you’ve experienced positive talent?
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My model: talent wrt coding (& many other talents) is (1) access to a broad search space + (2) ability to efficiently traverse it. With experience, the search space should grow & search efficiency should improve, w/ chunkiness (& imposter syndrome) where one outpaces the other
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