alt Hacker NewsIf they can reason about software engineering enough to be able to successfully develop software, then they are software developers. (I’ve yet to see a person who can say “we can automate this!” without actually thinking like a programmer and yet reliably be correct about that.)
One of my hobbies is telling people with extremely elaborate Excel spreadsheets (the kind that companies run on) that they're programmers even though they didn't think they were.