I've been in that role. It's utterly thankless. You will experience every way that the devs and non-devs can't work together. The devs will treat you like a sca

I've been in that role. It's utterly thankless. You will experience every way that the devs and non-devs can't work together. The devs will treat you like a scab. You'll discover all of the non-technical reasons why it's hard to be a dev, without being paid like one. Today, my rule is that I only code for myself, and share my code with others who are also good coders. I'll use code to produce a result and share the result. This also lets me off the hook from all sorts of things like UI's, installers, etc. Anybody who's a good enough dev to do it for money, and can stand doing it, should be. Edit: Thinking about it more, it's not that we can't work together as people but that the organizational culture makes it hard.