My nickname disagrees!

Yes, Tactical Coder vs Strategic Programmer.

They do it because they did not live in the decades where coding was used for the work of low level staff. Language changes, chances are that you also use words and phrases in an other context than where they were used decades before your time.

I don’t really care and just use code as shorthand. I’ve never worked in the past 30 years where there were programmers and then low level coders doing stuff. We were all the same.

There are people who can code and people who can’t. And people who code are sometimes good and sometimes bad.

For me coder == programmer == developer == engineer and should just mean you can create software.

I’ve always found people who argue over this stuff pedantic and ran into people who thought “programmers are lowly, I’m a X” usually sucked.

Yes, I agree, I feel the term "code" potentially misleading. But even "programming" can look as a triviality when presented in schools with no context and simplistic exercises. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3571785.3574125