I was one, though my job title was even snootier. I still wrote a lot of code but there was some precedent for that in my immediate group, and we were always s

I was one, though my job title was even snootier. I still wrote a lot of code but there was some precedent for that in my immediate group, and we were always short of (real) senior engineers. Zooming out, I don’t think the natural born hackers and the people promoted to Architect overlapped too much. But once in a while, yes.