[Geminidog]

I share your disdain for "Software Architects." I'm curious on your reasoning though. Can you expand on why you hold disdain for "Software Architects"?

[LgWoodenBadger]

For me, regarding the ones who don't actively code, it's something along the lines of "everything compiles on a whiteboard."

[cek]

It really comes down to the tenets I posted above from Amazon. At MS there was a propensity for folks in these roles to just pontificate. We called them "Architecture Astronauts". As an example, they were rarely practitioners (they rarely wrote code).