My comment isn't intended to pit "programmers" against "coders" or suggest that one is better than the other. I think the distinction is useful to help people understand why LLMs can be game-changing for some, and useless for others, because our attitudes towards programming/code can be so different.
If you go through and read the left-pad posts here on hn, you'll find people at both extremes: some fiercely defend left-pad as useful and worthwhile and think writing left-pad yourself is dumb-as-hell, and then at the other end you'll find some fiercely deride using left-pad as absurd when they could just write the code themselves. Here's a good thread to start with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798
Personally, I'd rather hire a "coder" than a "programmer" and consider myself more "coder" than "programmer" :)
If you go through and read the left-pad posts here on hn, you'll find people at both extremes: some fiercely defend left-pad as useful and worthwhile and think writing left-pad yourself is dumb-as-hell, and then at the other end you'll find some fiercely deride using left-pad as absurd when they could just write the code themselves. Here's a good thread to start with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798
Personally, I'd rather hire a "coder" than a "programmer" and consider myself more "coder" than "programmer" :)