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I don't think one possibly-trivial Python script (to which I am unable to find source code) counts as much evidence. It sets a lower bound, but a very loose one. I have no idea whether Eliezer can program, and my prior says that any given person is extremely unlikely to have real programming ability unless proven otherwise. So I assume he can't.
He could change my mind by either publishing a large software project, or taking a standardized programming test such as a TopCoder SRM and publishing his score.
EDIT: This is not meant to be a defense of obvious wrong hyperbole like "has never written a single computer program".
Eliezer has faced this criticism before and responded (somewhere!). I expect he will figure out coding. I got better at programming over the first 15 years I was doing it. So: he may also take a while to get up to speed. He was involved in this:
http://flarelang.sourceforge.net/