To me, developing software defines the entire process of delivering a software product. Looking at it this way, "writing code" is the only non-nebulous aspect a

To me, developing software defines the entire process of delivering a software product. Looking at it this way, "writing code" is the only non-nebulous aspect a developer is tasked with. Domain knowledge and managing systems are very much part of a developer's role. Anyone abstracted from this is most certainly just a "programmer" or "coder." Real developers do a whole lot more. Writing code is certainly part of it, but so is designing the overall software architecture, using the right library (when it already does a better job that your own "code"), keeping everything stable, and putting out a proper release. Each of these steps, and the dozens of others not mentioned, require one to "write code."