Being passionate is not the same thing as being a talented professional. Having a passion for something may or may not convert to career competence, depending

Being passionate is not the same thing as being a talented professional. Having a passion for something may or may not convert to career competence, depending on the person. The problem is that it's very hard to quantify programming talent, and it's easy to signal passion - hence passion is used as a false cipher for competence, although likely with some correlation at least.