Being a programmer doesn't mean one is not creative, those two are not mutually exclusive. Not to mention that one can observe a problem that can be fixed by a way they already know too.
So it turns out Mercedes were sand bagging in testing, as usual. Beat Ferrari by 7 tenths of a second! Anyways, that's the same gap as last year's race, interestingly it turned out Ferrari had a car cappable to win the championship.