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."
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