> It's kind of hilarious isn't it?

It is. I too find my competence profile a bit weird.

I've been interested in security since I was 12 yet never worked full time as a software developer. I have done some coding, but that was over a decade ago, and even then it wasn't very much.

On the other hand I understand the theoretical foundations of formal languages quite well, as well as the engineering required to implement them. I'm comfortable talking about any stage of the compiler pipeline, I can recite the Lambda cube and which logics the interesting corners correspond to, and I'm designing a family of programming languages in my free time.

I understand digital design fairly well too for that matter.

Are you suggesting Ada Lovelace isn't capable of reasoning about a problem?

You can come up with an algorithm or system without knowing programming. Presumably we can agree the opposite, that being a programmer doesn't give you mystical insight into every programming problem.

Ultimately this isn't even a programming problem.

Timmy writes homework, Jimmy writes homework. They can name the homework however they want. Both go in the same pigeon hole. How can the teacher tell who did which homework?