Yes, because "I can't perform the basic mental operations integral to what x *is*, but I have a passion for x" is incoherent. Passion requires some basic degree of ability. If you're arguing you can leverage a lot from there, I agree. But not everyone has even that to start with.
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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?
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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The non-obvious thing is that a lot of people seem to have a very hard time either dedicating new knowledge to the search space in a searchable format or searching it effectively after the fact. They can know a lot of procedural information about code w/o being able to deploy it
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Ah, a useful tautology for problem decomposition then! I'm pretty sure the issues I've seen in non-coders have the form "cannot add (cannot represent?) the knowlege coders have in the cognitive format they have it" not "have added the knowledge but can't search it".
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Your model sounds to me like a nigh tautologically broad definition of intelligence/optimization.
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