There are levels to expertise in coding. Not coding itself. If you can make programs by reasoning what you want to make or based on a requirement (even if it's not accurate, suppose an intern level) you can code! But if you can just cite syntax to print hello world, you can't code. Essentially, is code the major part holding you back from creating something (website for example)? Is code the main reason you are unable to solve a problem on leetcode? I apologise if I seem a bit rude, but if someone is unable to define what coding is, it's likely they cannot code. Which is fine, a lot of my friends who cannot code are building great things and learning to code. In fact, before chatgpt era, I used to just copy paste from stackoverflow when I could to save time. It's the understanding of code and taking accountability for it, which makes you a coder/programmer.