Expect this to get much worse as the profession is stripped of its remaining threads of prestige by the explosion of bootcamps and the supplanting of the terms &quot;software developer&#x2F;enginer&#x2F;programmer&quot; with &quot;coder,&quot; one that equally well describes medical data entry clerks (no doubt the way many managers and spiteful journalists actually view us), if Google search results are an accurate representation.<p>Why expect professionalism from people who aren&#x27;t treated like professionals and shown the respect that would normally be their due?