> Programming ability is of course not innate, but the ability to learn to be great at it does seem to be mostly innate. It's no more innate than any skill. T

> Programming ability is of course not innate, but the ability to learn to be great at it does seem to be mostly innate. It's no more innate than any skill. The only innate aspect to it is the desire to do well at it. > that truly good people are extremely rare and that most people tend to be mediocre and some serviceable The problem with this sentence is the word mediocre. The vast majority of developers are average, which is to be expected. The problem is that Silicon Valley is seen as the norm for development and not the exception. SV plays right into the personality culture we seemed to have built (thanks to social media), so people start thinking all development is like that, whereas most people just want to do their job and gohome to their family at night.