Guess why I was thinking about architecture astronauts a few minutes ago. I searched and apparently I had missed this article from Joel where he apparently coined the term:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
I think it's a bit ironic considering what Joel seems to be doing these days, and it is not entirely what I think about architecture astronauts, but it's still worth reading in my opinion.
@coder the article is more about thinking too much about abstractions and not enough about what software is supposed to do for the user than about what I usually think about architecture astronauts, that the farther you are from doing the actual low-level work, the less qualified you are to talk about it.
@coder (yes, I use compilers and I don't check the compiled output of my programs. Compilers are sufficiently deterministic and predictable in most cases. People following an architect's design tend not to be as deterministic and predictable.)
