My best experience with a manager so far has been one that generally delegated all technical tasks but was available to solve them should the need arise. It's 9

My best experience with a manager so far has been one that generally delegated all technical tasks but was available to solve them should the need arise. It's 9am and no one else is around to help a blocked QA fix a broken build? It can be 'fixed' or at least reverted in a sane way. Or (esp. with a large company) some other team's service/lib is behaving unpredictably, get the right people in the chat/room/phone to make sure an engineer can get things working. Managers should empower teams to do their best work, not get in the way or do their work for them.