Being called a &quot;coder&quot; implies you&#x27;re performing mechanistic grunt work of manipulating symbols with little thought to architecture, or really without any implied discipline. It&#x27;s akin to identifying a writer or journalist as a &quot;typist&quot;. Though I suppose that&#x27;s what many &quot;coders&quot; do, go figure.<p>The media by and large does not care about programmers, only insofar as there is overlap with Internet entrepreneurs.