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In the workplace, non-developers see developers as folks who make magic out of code. As a developer, you could be building complex API integrations all day or just clicking around playing <a href="http://westofloathing.com/" target="_blank">West of Loathing</a> on Steam, and 99% of your coworkers wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Even though tech companies literally couldn’t exist without their dev teams, devs are also somehow paid less than people with job titles like Chief Inspiration Ninja who sit in pointless meetings all day stealing credit for everyone else’s work.