A software engineer told me I shouldn't label myself as a programmer, I'm just a “coder” (I'm a web developer). What exactly is the difference, and should I remove the title programmer from my resume?

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I consider myself a developer and a coder and a programmer. What I do not consider myself is an engineer. Despite that, my job title is Ruby on Rails Engineer. The fact of it is, buzzwords do not and will never reflect reality. Even though that is true, buzzwords still cast a heavy shadow over that r