There was an article in the weekend issue of #derStandard that enraged me a bit:

Supposedly approximately every tenth coder is a #GhostEngineer, who does not contribute significant value to codebases.

However, their source seems to be sketchy.
First of all, the quoted source was a Twitter post that was just clickbait for the poster's website. Which too, is sketchy. The linked "research paper" has not been peer reviewed, and the abstract reads like an #Advertisement for the author's AI app.

Yegor Denisov-Blanch has posted a defense of his group's "ghost engineer" research at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7269546281742520320/ As far as I can tell, the paper itself has still not been published and neither the model nor training data are available for inspection. #ghostengineer

I am a #ghostEngineer
Most days I don't write any code, since consulting people within the company, solving big picture issues, helping structure problems, analyzing issues, building software that never gets submitted, just as a single purpose instrumentation, turns out to already be a full-time job.
If you look at code written and bugs fixed, I am probably at the bottom 10% of my company for the last year. I rarely fix issues, the tickets I analyze are whole system issues, rarely my own code.