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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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.