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I’ve yet to meet an architect I would hire to build literally anything. I’ve met dozens that don’t know their head from their ass. And always, always when you

• eru 2y ago
  My first boss had the title 'architect', but he was actually very competent, and very regularly got his hands dirty coding. (But at the time, I basically joined what was still essentially a startup just after they had been acquired by a larger company. I think the titles like 'architect' might have come from the larger company, but the competence came from them still being the same people as at the startup.)
  • eropple 2y ago
    I'm currently at a very large company, and architects are, in many lines of business, the only technical folks directly employed by the company. Which means a product's quality hinges pretty directly on whether your architect is somebody technical who can help solve problems both at the implementation level and before they get to the implementation level (which I certainly try to be, when not triple-booked on meetings trying to keep everything else on the rails) or the Dilbert version. We do exist, I promise. ;) But in my case at least, the Eye of Sauron can only keep so many things in sight at a time...