Perhaps some programmers are producing those products you describe but many of them are not. Programming is a vague term that seems to simply refer to the act

Perhaps some programmers are producing those products you describe but many of them are not. Programming is a vague term that seems to simply refer to the act of using a descriptive and functional language to describe a problem set intended to be solved by a computer. But then how is that different from any other area of applied mathematics? This ongoing debate seems needlessly pedantic. Someone will write some new academic paper, or book, or tweet which future generations will point back to and say "that was where the term computer humptyfucker came from to describe my job." A bunch of neckbeards will then buck the trend and start writing op-ed pieces about how we aren't humptyfuckers because we don't apply the rigidity that traditional certified and legal humptyfuckery requires.