I think it depends on what kind of work you're talking about. If you're talking about building a basic UI or a service, most decent developers should be able to

I think it depends on what kind of work you're talking about. If you're talking about building a basic UI or a service, most decent developers should be able to churn out working code in a couple of days. If you're referring to something low level or very algorithmically tricky then sure there are obviously some geniuses amongst us whose presence we must learn to tolerate