programmer
C1685
concept
A programmer is a person who designs, writes, tests, and maintains computer software by creating and modifying code to solve problems or perform specific tasks.
All labels observed (17)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| video game designer | 118 |
| technologist | 37 |
| programmer canonical | 25 |
| video game programmer | 23 |
| hacker | 11 |
| Python core developer | 8 |
| Ruby programmer | 4 |
| Bitcoin developer | 3 |
| JavaScript developer | 3 |
| Internet project developer | 2 |
| JavaScript programmer | 2 |
| Perl programmer | 2 |
| game programmer | 2 |
| American computer programmer | 1 |
| Python programmer | 1 |
| maintainer | 1 |
| programming language researcher | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: programmer
Generated description
A programmer is a person who designs, writes, tests, and maintains computer software by creating and modifying code to solve problems or perform specific tasks.
Instances (223)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Clifford Shaw | — |
|
Notch
surface form:
Markus Persson
|
video game programmer |
|
notch
surface form:
Markus Persson
|
video game programmer |
| Harvey Smith | video game designer |
| David Crane | video game designer |
| Bob Whitehead | video game designer |
| Michael Kagan | technologist |
|
Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
surface form:
Lisbeth Salander
|
hacker |
| Dennis Ritchie | — |
| Alan Miller | video game designer |
| Larry Kaplan | video game designer |
| Eric Ly | technologist |
| Tim Hanson | technologist |
| Will Glaser | technologist |
| Jochen Theodorou | — |
| James Strachan | — |
| Morten Primdahl | technologist |
|
Sonobe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
surface form:
Shigeru Miyamoto
|
video game designer |
| Jason Rubin | video game designer |
| Sundar Pichai | technologist |
| Taku Matoba | video game programmer |
|
Itagaki
surface form:
Tomonobu Itagaki
|
video game designer |
|
Dinesh Chugtai in Silicon Valley
surface form:
Dinesh Chugtai
|
— |
|
president of Neuralink
surface form:
Max Hodak
|
technologist |
| Masahiro Sakurai | video game designer |
| Dinesh Chugtai | — |
| Alex Hutchinson | video game designer |
| Steven Masters | video game designer |
| David Cage | video game designer |
| Gunpei Yokoi | video game designer |
| Christian Cantamessa | video game designer |
| Larry Sanger | Internet project developer |
| Nathan Gettings | technologist |
| Charles Nutter | — |
| Jim Weirich | Ruby programmer |
| Ryan Davis | Ruby programmer |
| Arnt Jensen | video game designer |
| Darlene Alderson | hacker |
| Chloe O'Brian | hacker |
| Hideki Konno | video game designer |
| Hal Barwood | video game designer |
| Ian Dallas | video game designer |
| Al Alcorn | video game designer |
| Alex Wilder | hacker |
| Satoshi Tajiri | video game designer |
| Will Hurley | technologist |
| Kensuke Tanabe | video game designer |
| Nathan Myhrvold | technologist |
| S. R. Hadden | technologist |
| Takashi Tezuka | video game designer |