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how about software architect

• geebee 19y ago
  This would avoid the perils of the PE land grab, and I don't think that licensed architects would try to force software "architects" to go through the architecture exams. The downside - I think this title is an attempt to add status by distancing a technical person from the pedestrian act of writing code. All in all, I wouldn't want to work for an architect who doesn't code. I've seen it, and it's ugly. It's frustrating that "programmer" was denigrated and has come to mean a person who, without any sort of creativity or judgement, types code to spec all day. I have never met anyone who did this, and I have my doubts as to whether it's really possible, but I have met a few people who needed to believe it to justify their existence as "architects". But if programmer is a bad word, and hacker is too prone to misunderstanding, then "developer" will have to do.