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by daxfohl 2022 days ago
Yep, I agree completely. I'm just saying that in my experience, the person who leads that planning also does a whole lot of the implementation. I've been around the business 20 years from startups to enterprise to FAANG, from embedded life support devices to dev tooling to cloud services, and I can't recall an instance where there was a dedicated "architect" role that didn't dig pretty heavily into the codebase as well.