Calling yourself a programmer marks you as a cost to be eliminated; describe yourself instead by the revenue you raised or the costs you cut.

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• The joy of a programmer is to type the code himself; promoting yourself out of that makes you a project manager of a murder of AI crows. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Jul 2025
• Developers who defined the job as being the only person who could write code have just watched the only thing they were good at get commoditised. KHKelsey Hightower3 Jun 2026
• AI may eventually replace programmers, but the craft of programming will survive the way knitting did, and you were never just a programmer: you are a builder. PSPeter Steinberger12 Feb 2026
• The programmer AI replaces is the one whose purpose is coding itself; an engineer whose purpose is finding problems to solve is not replaceable. JHJensen Huang8 Jan 2026
• If the definition of "developer" only includes people writing all the code themselves, then many people will not be able to be called that for much longer. MBMatt Birchler9 Oct 2026

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