>Programmers – myself included – are essentially glorified plumbers, piping data from one end to another. As much as we'd all like to think we're all architects

>Programmers – myself included – are essentially glorified plumbers, piping data from one end to another. As much as we'd all like to think we're all architects, let's just be honest. depends what you are working on, I suppose the average web developer could probably be considered this. But there are people working on problems that require major CS knowledge, domain expertise, etc. Those types would definitely be closer to engineers building the tools that the plumber uses