Tell that to his boss whose kpi depends on him programming for his life.
5 days a week programming from 9 am to midnight. Weekend included.

Programmers really the slaves.
Analyst still okay. Just Google some solution. Propose solution.
Can work or not work. Never mind.
It's the programmers taichi to use your solution that doesn't make sense to meet deadline.

Programmer is the bottom of the tech chain.
Ok maybe infra. But infra / SYS admin their work got process. Got manual. Got user guide one.
No need to figure things out

So programmer is really the bottom of the food chain.