[giantg2]

I would love to be an architect. It's all concepts and not really implementation beyond proof of concept. Concepts and problem solving is right up my alley. Unfortunately I need to be at least a senior dev before they will consider me. Plus it's like double my salary. Oh well.

[_dark_matter_]

At Mozilla at least, the architects are all some of the best programmers I know. They implement huge swaths of the architecture they propose.

[giantg2]

That's nice. The people who are architects at my company are generally very good developers since you have to be a highly regarded senior dev to even be considered to the position. They don't work on the implementation though.