This is just a dumb marketing trend. Like how 10 years ago every admin position was a "coordinator" of some kind.

It'll pass.

Over-reaching language is having a moment. “Lived experience,” “centering,” even “literally” are getting buzz over more accessible, plain language. It’s a way to say “I understand the special words for special people.” Yes language matters, but don’t fixate on that over behaviors and actions.

get a load of Art Vandelay over here

@ "Over-reaching language is having a moment. "

or, language just evolves, as it has always done.

@2 "Over-reaching language is having a moment. "

or, language just evolves, as it has always done.

From Merriam-Webster: a person who designs and guides a plan or undertaking (the architect of American foreign policy).

Although folks like IA like to claim exclusive ownership of a term (I’m looking at you, doctor), in general English typically has varying definitions - none more “right” than the other. Given the above definition, seems the term architect is being appropriately use by folks outside building design (what, no love for the lowly landscape architect?).

@7,

I've been tweaking my raunchy video search methods and strategies to optimize returned search results and have gotten pretty good at it. Should probably update my resume' to note that I'm an accomplished Pornography Architect.

meant my comment to be directed toward @6 where it'd have seemed at least somewhat more appropriate.

Being an actual (as in meeting licensure and education requirements in addition to dictionary definitions) architect searching for a job in Seattle involves a lot more filtering of results and extra scrolling than you'd expect for this very reason.

@7 yes, those are buildings. Someone get this guy a cookie for figuring that one out.

I think it's funny that adding Architect to other job titles earns the recipients more money, but traditional Architects that need to get all the certifications and put in X hours, for the most part, don't get paid dirt.

when the Going
gets Tough we
Always rely on

Constanza & Constanza
cuz they Stand for
Something

& how 'Bout
that falling out
for the guy who de-
signed Fallingwater?

oh and I Love
A. Gaudi -- the things
he Built a hundred years ago
imagine what he could DO Now.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIF.gdQEML0mGZ%252bC5fNXc%252bDskw%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=ec28caa015353bd03f1761ab7dee46019267a5ac973709bc47c4d2437686a5ab&ipo=images

Lamentations of a furloughed program manager.

used to be it was "producer" back the early days of the interwebs. Everyone was a "producer" but don't ask what they actually *produced."

@8, you are a query engineer. new thing, really.

Typical architect architect behavior to write a complaint like this.