When a company does not want to pay (or empower) a principal engineer, they hire legions of junior engineers to cover up the gap. People who focus on the joy of shipping than on the pesky questions of "shipping what?" and "who will maintain it?"
Many of us here owe our jobs to the deliberate weakening of technical authority and expertise. That debt probably blinds us to those management decisions, and the need for architects to balance them out.
Many of us here owe our jobs to the deliberate weakening of technical authority and expertise. That debt probably blinds us to those management decisions, and the need for architects to balance them out.