I read the blog post and my reaction is: they are saying that being a programmer is not a good way to become a manager, or to be successful in terms of what mak

I read the blog post and my reaction is: they are saying that being a programmer is not a good way to become a manager, or to be successful in terms of what makes a manager successful. As a developer who has also been a director and a team lead: - Good programmers get pretty good wages in the current market. I wouldn't call earning 6 figures a "dead end job". - The number of people you manage is important to a manager, not a programmer - Becoming a CEO is important to someone that wants to manage a company, not to someone that wants to write code There are many rewards in writing code, if that's the job you like. You can write code that makes a difference in a company which does something you agree on. You can create a new company or product from scratch. You can spend your career learning new stuff. All of this is exciting to me! If your definition of success is a truckload of money, retiring at 30 and being the boss of 100 people... you shouldn't be a coder, but that's a very narrow (and let me add, totally shallow) definition.