@Gargron this just be me but after I read all the replies it looks like there's a lot of confusion about terminology for a person who writes code at the basic level and works on big enough projects that have world impact at the meta level. I believe that some of these terminologies are culturally influenced as well. I have seen in US people distinguishing programmers as white hat coders and black hat coders. But coders is a common term for "geek" types who sit and code all day.