With so many otherwise smart people in the tech community, it's unfortunate to see how ready people are to advertise their own half-baked prejudices, based on anecdotal evidence.

There are great coders out there who took longer than a year to code, but haven't coded since birth. I wouldn't expect someone trying to code while working a full-time job, or raising a new-born child, to get up to speed as quickly as a single computer science college student. That doesn't mean the former has less aptitude, or grit.

The article is a fun read, but doesn't make that sound a case for the existence of this "uncanny valley" class of programmers.