> The Architect-Programmer model was also meant for offshoring. I don't think this is true. The Architect-Programmer model precedes offshoring by decades, eve

> The Architect-Programmer model was also meant for offshoring. I don't think this is true. The Architect-Programmer model precedes offshoring by decades, even if it was repurposed to facilitate offshoring. It was the dominant model during the "Corporate IT" phase of the software industry (before the web/Internet took over), and was famously satirized in the classic movie Office Space and also in the Dilbert comics. It has older roots in traditional corporate structures that strongly delineate "corporate" vs everyone else. The word "corporate" in office culture even used to mean "distant, out of touch bosses in luxury offices", and still kind of means that in industries with similarly stratified workforces.