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> This sounds like it was written by someone who hasn't worked with...

Every broad article I've seen like this speaks about 'software' as if it is a monolithic career path. The lives of web programmers, embedded engineers, AI researchers, ERP programmers(etc, etc) are all quite different. Most of the articles I've see on programming/software engineering don't capture the things I've experienced over my 23 years as a programmer.

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And then there's the "invisible programmers", the ones who might cross-train as IT technicians, who write internal-only software on an as-needed basis. Need a report? Need a webapp so people can work with a business process database? Need to integrate a CRM into Jira by pulling information out of its backend database nobody has a schema for? Not the kind of stuff they teach you in school, bucko, but someone has to do it.

To me this is a super underrepresented group if you can call it that. Tons and tons of mid market companies have more of these programmers than traditional CS grads.

When is the last time anyone considered an Application Analyst a developer? On a small scale, they often do that.

I believe they were referred to as catfish programmers here a while ago. We say hello.

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