What’s interesting is that all chief surgeons were once surgeons, probably really good. So there’s idea that you have to do the thing to manage the thing. Medi

What’s interesting is that all chief surgeons were once surgeons, probably really good. So there’s idea that you have to do the thing to manage the thing. Medicine is strange in many ways, but I think this isn’t a bad practice. I’ve worked for non-dev managers and sometimes they are good. But I prefer to work for someone who at least once was a dev as I think they understand better what is possible and how to coordinate and lead. When I managed teams I always tried to do something useful in the codebase. I don’t think it is possible to manage well and work deeply enough to make great software. But it’s possible to at least be able to do my own builds and at least test out different techniques.