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Jon Cage

Depends on the size of your software shop. Were a team of three and though I do find myself architecting overall solutions we simply don't have the man power for any of us to just do that one thing.

By stepping in and implementing features yourself, you're also proving the architecture you designed is feasible to put into practice. I've designed things in the past that simply didn't work the way I'd hoped. If you at least produce proof-of-concept code for elements your shop hasn't implemented previously, you can lighten the load on the devs putting your ideas into something concrete. Helps avoid getting too far down a design route before realising you've made a bad decision that might have a lot of time-costly knock on effects further down the road...