code monkey

code monkey
 n

   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."