0 the person who does the boring physical work in a company:
Freddy is considered the office flunkey.
1 a male servant wearing a uniform
2 a person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer:
The flunky is given orders by various members of the family which he must carry out.
The hotel flunkies jumped to help him with his bags.
Is the program a creative artist, or is a mere flunky, mechanically doing exactly what it is told to do?