> IMHO, the best engineers are half product managers. Absolutely agreed. I think this is part of the source of the endless fighting around "10x engineers". In

> IMHO, the best engineers are half product managers. Absolutely agreed. I think this is part of the source of the endless fighting around "10x engineers". In most discussions where people are trying to "prove" their existence, they will usually bring up things that are outside of the scope of a traditional engineer, that involves some kind of outside/customers/business perspective on a problem/solution.