code monkey

n 1. A person only capable of grinding out code, but unable to perform the
higher-primate tasks of software architecture, analysis, and design. Mildly
insulting. Often applied to the most junior people on a programming team. 2.
Anyone who writes code for a living; a programmer. 3. A self-deprecating way
of denying responsibility for a management decision, or of complaining about
having to live with such decisions. As in Don't ask me why we need to write
a compiler in COBOL, I'm just a code monkey.

