Yes, but on small, self-contained projects so that your engineers don’t have to even think about it. e.g. You need an internal dashboard but your teams are bus

Yes, but on small, self-contained projects so that your engineers don’t have to even think about it. e.g. You need an internal dashboard but your teams are busy working on customer-facing features? You write it. One time we suddenly and urgently needed to start caching responses from an external service. My manager wrote something simple in a day or two. Meant that the team didn’t get distracted from the more complex work we were doing.