Well I'd argue being better night make all the difference. If the set of possible programs includes ones extremely difficult to program, then are those programs possible to program given an ordinary developer and sufficient time? Definitely not imo. Some things only a genius programmer could do. That programmer could come along and invent a way to do ai using today's commodity hardware. Without that ingeniousness it's doubtful more time would do the same for ordinary developers. Do I believe I could do it given enough time? No. Could some genius somewhere today? Maybe.i wouldn't rule it out, in fact I'm fascinated by it.

I love this comment because this is how I always feel.

Programming just feels like a large game of managing expectations. It often feels like I never have time to do anything "right", so I have to make trade-offs before some impending deadline. This is a serious source of discomfort in this profession that never seems to want to go away.