Well architects designing large systems through and through are maybe like composers Your run of the mill dev would be more like a studio musician hired to pla

Well architects designing large systems through and through are maybe like composers Your run of the mill dev would be more like a studio musician hired to play a specific instrument in a specific genre. Surely, he/she needs to be able to come up with lines/hooks/riffs/solos (when asked) and play part in the arrangement but composing from scratch and for multiple instruments would be rather out of scope. While there's no direct audience for studio musicians (only the output matters) there are definitely performance expectations and the studio musicians are expected to be efficient.