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