The author's point is that your job is not to produce code, but rather to produce good business outcomes. Obviously you do that by producing code (and participa

The author's point is that your job is not to produce code, but rather to produce good business outcomes. Obviously you do that by producing code (and participating in design meetings and collaborating with other parts of the company in various ways). Firefighters don't call themselves ladder and hose operators. Those are just the tools they use. Their job is to fight fires so they call themselves firefighters.