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Others will have different views. My perspective isn't meant to demean anyone. Creating a concept from scratch, manifesting your own vision, and dealing with t
by aww_dang 5y ago
Others will have different views. My perspective isn't meant to demean anyone.
Creating a concept from scratch, manifesting your own vision, and dealing with the business elements is more than just coding. This in my view is entrepreneurship worthy of the role "creator". There is much more to creating than just working with the text editor.
Manifesting someone else's vision, offloading all of the leadership, creative efforts and business problem solving by just focusing on the code is just coding. Perhaps the title here is "programmer".
The distinction is confusing when there are multiple roles that need to be filled. A social media person might reach out and then say, "Why don't you talk to our lead developer about this?". Maybe the outreach person can't close whatever the goal is, but the name "developer" can be interpreted as "programmer". This is confusing for all parties, because the listener wouldn't expect a programmer to close on a sale, brand partnership or other desired action.
Creator vs. programmer nicely handles this distinction. However if every programmer without these extra attributes becomes a creator the distinction is once again meaningless.
How many entrepreneurial creators are asking permission with resumes instead of self-actualizing with their own projects?
- nonrandomstring 5y agoSome good thoughts. Thank you. The scale of specialism/generalism does seem to be a factor. Some people may use "developer" to keep the door open for their generalist credentials.