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Are you asking if you can never program but become a technical leader that manages a team of developers? Sure, it's happened before. However, your developers
by jf22 8y ago
Are you asking if you can never program but become a technical leader that manages a team of developers?
Sure, it's happened before.
However, your developers will probably not respect you.
You'll have enough skills to convince management you know what you are talking about, but developers will see through you and know you don't truly understand the code.
- sidlls 8y agoMost of the problems my team faces today are due to poor architecture decisions, often made by people who express a similar opinion as you have. Coding is the relatively easy part.
- throwaway7508 8y agoThat's not really what I'm asking, no. I've been programming since I was a child in the 80s basically, but virtually all of my career has been focused on sysadmin/DevOps/infrastructure and I don't have coding side projects at the moment. I'm looking for advice from engineers like me who were still very hands-on on the DevOps side of things + had good technical vision owing to a long experience, and ended up part of a co-founding team. Did they have to purposefully decide to hone their full-stack dev skills first in order to become more attractive to potential business co-founders ? Or were they able to make use of their existing infra/backend-oriented skillset, maybe by teaming up with another tech co-founder with complimentary skills on the product/front-end dev side ? I suspect one of the mental hurdles is that you have to transition from a "run" mindset where you spend most of your day taking other people's code live and operating it (what you build is "just" the infra and systems around it), to a "build" mindset where you actually code the business logic (but don't necessary understand how to run it reliably :) )
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