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 |
|---|---|
| Marc Blank | video game designer |
| Dave Lebling | video game designer |
| Brian Moriarty | video game designer |
| Richard Greenblatt | hacker |
| Shinichi Ikematsu | video game designer |
| Katsuya Eguchi | video game designer |
| David Warthen | technologist |
|
TJ
surface form:
TJ Holowaychuk
|
JavaScript programmer |
| Dan Abramov | — |
| Mehdi Hatamian | technologist |
| Yoshiaki Koizumi | video game designer |
| Jens Bergensten | video game designer |
| R. Kent Dybvig | programming language researcher |
| Markus Persson | video game designer |
| Paul Graham | — |
| Makoto Kano | video game designer |
| Jeff Kaditz | technologist |
| Sivathanu Pillai | technologist |
| Koichi Hayashida | video game designer |
| Lew Cirne | technologist |
| Ragnar Tørnquist | video game designer |
| L. Peter Deutsch | — |
| Shigefumi Hino | video game designer |
| Jeremy Allaire | technologist |
| isaacs | JavaScript developer |
| Dale Dougherty | technologist |
| Bob Bates (game designer) | video game designer |
| Peter Weinberger | — |
| Rufus Pollock | technologist |
| Pieter Wuille | Bitcoin developer |
| Pete Gleadall | — |
| H. D. Moore | hacker |
| Yuji Naka | video game programmer |
| Ed Boon | video game programmer |
| John Tobias | video game designer |
| Doug TenNapel | video game designer |
| Rieko Kodama | video game designer |
| Greg Johnson | video game designer |
| Dwight Merriman | technologist |
| Peter Molyneux | video game designer |
| Mark Webley | video game designer |
| Ron Gilbert | video game designer |
| Gary Winnick | video game designer |
| Dave Grossman | video game designer |
| David Fox | video game designer |
| Damian Taylor | — |
| Shigeru Miyamoto | video game designer |
| Tim Schafer | video game designer |
|
Mark Cerny (as PS5 lead system architect)
surface form:
Mark Cerny
|
video game designer |
| Mark Voorsanger | video game designer |