There's a lot of evidence people respond best to managers who come from the ranks of the most talented individual contributors

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• A few larger teams under experienced engineering managers outperform many tiny teams each led by a working tech lead. CMCharity Majors5 Jan 2024management
• An engineering manager should support six to eight engineers: fewer and they drift into being a tech lead, more and they can only be a coach. WLWill Larson14 Jul 2018management
• As soon as founder mode is an established idea people will misuse it: founders excusing an inability to delegate, and managers deciding to act like founders. PGPaul Graham1 Sept 2024management
• Craft is a competitive strategy rather than a nicety: a company wins by having the best craft and the best design, so that is what it should hire for. DFDylan Field16 Oct 2025management
• Developers who adopt AI coding agents eventually become managers of those agents rather than hands-on coders. ESElio Struyf17 Jun 2026management

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