Totally agree with you. I’m in the same category and have had to accept my fate to some degree. I keep improving relative to myself, but that’s all I can reasonably do.

What gets me is when I meet many of these “innate talent” coders I get to hear phrases like:

“I just want to work with the best possible team…”

And then from their behaviour, you see how they get irritated with the regular folks and try and convince everyone that if we all just “be more like them” it’ll all work better.

Many of them are blind to how much their talents make what is easy for them, very hard for the rest of us.

I call this the “talented arrogance” syndrome.