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Programming and debugging, although far from trivial, are the easy part of the problem. The hard part is determining what the program needs to do. I think that the coding and debugging parts will not require AGI levels of intelligence, however deciding what to do definitely needs at least human-like capacity for most non-trivial problems.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say 'determining what the program needs to do' - this sounds very general. Could you give an example?
Most programming is not about writing the code, it is about translating a human description of the problem into a computer description of the problem. This is also why all attempts so far to make a system so simple "non-programmers" can program it have failed. The difficult aptitude for programming is the ability to think abstractly and systematically, and recognize what parts of a human description of the problem need to be translated into code, and what unspoken parts also need to be translated into code.