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."