diff --git a/book/src/tooling/coap.md b/book/src/tooling/coap.md
index 2ad1c5cbf..4481fdff6 100644
--- a/book/src/tooling/coap.md
+++ b/book/src/tooling/coap.md
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Examples of described policy entries are:
 ### Interacting with RIOT-rs CoAP server from the host
 
 A convenient policy (which is the default of RIOT-rs's examples)
-is to allow all access to the programmer.
+is to allow all access to the developer.
 When that policy is enabled in the build system,
 an unencrypted key is created the developer's [state home directory]<!-- precise location TBD -->,
 from where it can be picked up by tools such as [aiocoap-client].