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Discussion on: Should architects code?

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Daniel Albuschat

Agreed, to a degree. I am an architect, too. In my current position, I rarely have contact with the code. At my last position, I often teamed up with the devs to design code, find bugs, etc. I now realize that this was very valuable and miss that link to the actual code base. By conducting many pairing sessions I got a good code overview that I could put to use by helping design and even debugging code in short chats with devs at the watercooler - it really felt good to hear from the dev that you have helped them solve their problem a few hours or a day later, and I would like to get this feeling back.

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Robert Morschel

I am the same. Coding is what drew me to software. Leaving it behind, even if the problems one solves are higher level, and move bigger blocks, still hurts.