Agreed. Programmers code. Developers build software. Most software engineers work under a developer (business subject matter expert, slash, product owner) as programmers.
The person who envisions and specifies the features is the developer. The person who translates those into code is a software engineer or programmer. Sometimes they are the same person. In the corporate world, rarely ever.
In the corporate world if the software engineer can capture and document a business domain's processes then they are effectively taking the job role of developer from the product owner. Most people are comfortable leaving that in the hands of someone else and making it "their job." Engineers have the chance to take power but rarely do because they get caught up in the weeds of trying to covert a trickle of requirements into code because...agile. Developer Hegemony, when are we going to wake up?
The person who envisions and specifies the features is the developer. The person who translates those into code is a software engineer or programmer. Sometimes they are the same person. In the corporate world, rarely ever.
In the corporate world if the software engineer can capture and document a business domain's processes then they are effectively taking the job role of developer from the product owner. Most people are comfortable leaving that in the hands of someone else and making it "their job." Engineers have the chance to take power but rarely do because they get caught up in the weeds of trying to covert a trickle of requirements into code because...agile. Developer Hegemony, when are we going to wake up?