Architecture without code is like navigation without ever looking at a map. You can talk about destinations all day, but eventually someone has to figure out which roads actually exist. I recently discovered a popular ORM was fighting me at every turn, friction that documentation never warned about. If I hadn't been hands-on, I never would have known. The moment you stop coding, you become the guy throwing out ideas that don't connect to anything real.
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