A manager whose own code finishes every project is adding their value rather than multiplying the team’s.

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• Engineers should own their code in production, and it is management’s job to make sure that on-call does not suck. CMCharity Majors30 Jun 2022
• Engineers are hired to create business value rather than to program things, and the only goals are adding revenue and cutting costs. PMPatrick McKenzie28 Oct 2011
• Making management the only path to career progression is a mistake that costs a company the senior engineers it needs. CMCharity Majors11 May 2017
• Engineering managers are a necessary evil for when things break down; 37signals tried them for two years and went back to leaving programmers alone. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Jul 2025
• Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026

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