Comment Re:Code monkey or engineer? (Score 0) 545
Yes, but good architects draw fast because they get lots of practice. It's like playing an instrument, or athletics, or any other skill. The more you do it, the better you get. Good programmers usually can type fast because they program a lot. But it's the fact that they spend a lot of time programming that makes them good programmers, not the fact that they can type fast. Fast typing is a side effect of spending enough time programming that you get good at the physical mechanics. If you can't type fast, then you're like a guitar player who can't find the notes on the fretboard. It's a sign that you aren't practicing enough.
The last part of this comment makes me laugh. If you're sitting around "processing the rest of the design" while "code monkeys" do the actual programming, then you are not an engineer. You are a manager, and you are not doing the programming. You may think that you are doing the very important thinking part of the job, but actually it's your "code monkeys" who are working their asses off trying to implement the half-baked designs of the "engineers" who not only never get their hands dirty writing code, but look down on the "code monkeys" who actually write the code and make it work.