No architects at Netflix? — ThePrimeagen

was like no Architects we just don't have architects Architects are the ones that go around in lab coats telling you how you should write your code and it's very fantastic and it's very beautiful and it works perfect on a whiteboard but when it actually comes time to implement it's horrifying and awful I don't like Architects okay I don't want anything to do with Architects I've never had a good experience involving an architect I swear every single time it's always just awful everybody Architects everybody does architect like when you build out your piece you architect and when some piece needs to be larger and put together itself and we have like a larger constraint you have to go and get a couple people together and all agree on it you just you can't contribute to a project reasonably because every month that goes by you're not coding is every month you don't understand how production works and as that gets further and further from your understanding you just simply start suggesting these things that are just stupid and it feels good because it looks good on a whiteboard it always looks good on a whiteboard every piece of code looks amazing on a whiteboard um everybody is an architect that's the thing everybody's an architect whenever you build code in some sense you're architecting it and as you get more experience you can build larger pieces of code that fit together and that's really it that's how I look at it

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