- unable to program, have no idea how to do it
- can do some simple programs in whatever language, even something useful, perhaps even some killer application
- have a good understanding of algorithms like sorting or graphic filters and able to use them in programs in most domains
- able to write something like Notepad++ or a computer game or internet browser or major company’s software
- able to produce an OS; able to produce a complex game engine; real world modelling like weather/internal combustion engine; NASA, CERN, NSA, NORAD, etc.
- able to produce his own groundbreaking language and compiler – LISP, COBOL, C++ and some other qualify – or Satoshi Nakamoto scheme for Bitcoin or Ethereum like concepts
- a Paul Hsieh level grandmaster of code; parallel and vector programing; voice recognition; computer vision and other AI stuff
- independently devise major algorithms; makes computer proofs in mathematics; chess and go programs at the very top level
- build programs, which builds programs, which builds programs … any level deep; able to build an algorithms making machine
- making a nontrivial self-improving code a.k.a. superintelligence
- being a superintelligence, written by someone from the 10th floor
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