But... the Peter Principle? You seem to be assuming that there is an equivalence between good programmers and good managers? I wish I lived in this alternativ

But... the Peter Principle? You seem to be assuming that there is an equivalence between good programmers and good managers? I wish I lived in this alternative reality you describe. My career has been littered where non technical managers--essentially clerks--get paid more than I do to sit around with a others and talk about what should be done while I (and colleagues) do all the doing. I end up doing a LOT of "managing" from behind the lines in all these cases. Frankly, the reality distortion field where "a good manager has increased the output of their team" has been such a small observed sample, that I wouldn't be able to claim there was even a correlation between the two, much less causality; I'd just chalk it up to something like "the water" or "the lighting" if I saw it happening with any regularity. (QuickJS seems tres cool; hat tip to the author)