Everyone has limits. However, people vastly overestimate the impact of intelligence and underestimate knowledge, experience, interest, and work ethic. If you li

Everyone has limits. However, people vastly overestimate the impact of intelligence and underestimate knowledge, experience, interest, and work ethic. If you like programming and expose yourself to a sufficient variety of problems and architectures, over time you'll slowly run out of situations where you're running into truly novel problems. At that point your intelligence will matter very little, high or low.