@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa I was called an "architect" at Western Digital. A bit pretentious, but it signified being comfortable with designing the structure of major portions of the codebase, and drawing up interaction contracts with adjacent parts of the product. Coding was a tiny part of the job. Four of us worked on a complete replacement of the ten year old firmware. It had become so entangled, it was impossible to refactor to work with multiple cores. We had a three-core system booting Windows in about three months.