Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)
&gt; Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things<p>So is every employee of every company.  They create business value by doing what their role is.  This is the point of a company, this is how it&#x27;s always worked.  The role of a programmer is to program things.  So a programmer programs things, and that is what they are hired for.<p>Why do we constantly get blog posts discussing ridiculous semantics like this?<p>Sure, it might work for some companies, but that&#x27;s so utterly unimportant.  I&#x27;m a programmer, I tell people I&#x27;m a programmer, I&#x27;m paid to program business applications, and I&#x27;m happily employed and liked by my superiors and company.  Clearly this line of thought also works fine.<p>So maybe the best advice is to just do what you do, call yourself whatever, and cut it with these self-important blog posts preaching your way to everyone else as though it&#x27;s some holy advice on cracking the employment puzzle.