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Attitude is key here. My manager hasn't written non-trivial code in ages, but is deferential to my team when we provide estimates around how difficult something

Attitude is key here. My manager hasn't written non-trivial code in ages, but is deferential to my team when we provide estimates around how difficult something will be to implement, or how long it will take. > Contrast the idea of a competent boss with the all-too-familiar experience of going to a non-technical middle-management type with an engineering problem, only to be stuck in a teaching session because the boss has never heard of a pub-sub system. Since we're being reductive, why not posit that if you can't explain your systems to someone who doesn't write code, you shouldn't be building such systems?

whatshisface 6y ago
>Since we're being reductive, why not posit that if you can't explain your systems to someone who doesn't write code, you shouldn't be building such systems? If we really want to be reductive, then there's no reason to hire a manager that shares a language with their subordinates, because if you can't teach English to someone who hasn't learned it, what business do you have talking? Clearly, this is absurd, which means there must have been some reasonable grey areas that got left behind along the way...