What Ben Kuhn thinks about developer tools

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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21 Jul 2024

Our readingA people manager needs enough technical depth to follow discussions and judge debates without relying on trust, but not the deepest technical expertise on the team.

Their wordsThe bar I typically suggest is that the people manager doesn't need to have the most technical depth on the team, but they need enough depth that they can follow most discussions without slowing them down, understand who's correct in most debates without needing to rely on trust, and generally stay oriented easily.

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