Phases in a developers life

• Enthusiastic –  build programs for real people – but its boring and uncool
• The disillusioned developer – you figure real people have boring problems
• Build generic solutions there cool, become an enthusiastic architect – build the generic thing machine
• But that takes loads of time and everyone else is still waiting to see the end product.  The customer does not care about you generic thing machine.
• Opps the generic thing machine turns out not to be as generic as you first thought. But you really want to force everything into it
• you become the disillusioned architect, but keep on gaining experience
• then you become the “wise” architect Question *, Answer, it depends