Dave Winer (whatever you think of him) had some pretty insightful commentary on this increasing usage of 'coder' and 'coding' by journalists, VCs, and politicia

Dave Winer (whatever you think of him) had some pretty insightful commentary on this increasing usage of 'coder' and 'coding' by journalists, VCs, and politicians: http://scripting.com/2014/06/04/#a1401884889 http://scripting.com/2014/06/04/#a1401884889 http://scripting.com/2014/08/27/whatCoderMeansToMe.html http://scripting.com/2014/08/27/whatCoderMeansToMe.html Quoting the first: >I joked on Twitter that if VCs and reporters want to call us coders, maybe we should call them accountants or keypressers. Since the 'keypressers' at Motherboard seem to rely on interviews with programmers like Dave Shields for at least some of their material, perhaps we should stop cooperating with them until they stop calling us 'coders' and describing what we do as 'coding'.