I'm a senior manager, nowhere near CTO, and I don't code anymore. It's very important that I understand the technology, that I can learn things for myself by an

I'm a senior manager, nowhere near CTO, and I don't code anymore. It's very important that I understand the technology, that I can learn things for myself by analyzing the codebase, and that I create a culture of strong engineering, but none of these things requires writing production code on a regular basis.