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The Bosses Are Coding Again (blog.herlein.com)
submitted 1 day ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Somewhere in the last year, a bunch of us who hadn’t shipped real code in years quietly started shipping again. Not reviewing it. Not architecting it in a doc and handing it off. Actually building it. And loving it.

I lead software for a living. That means my days are meetings, roadmaps, hiring, unblocking people, and saying “no” a lot. The last time “writing code” was my actual job was a long time ago. I never stopped being able to code — I stopped having the time to code. At least in my day job. There’s a difference, and every engineering leader reading this feels it in their bones.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

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I got this my superior who decided AI allowed them to code fixes and we were stuck with buggy code that wasn't merged, because the superior had moved on to a more important task requiring more AI "support" and couldn't process the comments. Things could've been faster had we implemented things ourselves.

When you aren't out in the fields dealing with stuff, you don't know what's important to the workers. "Jumping in" for a minute to do a task might actually slow down the team if understanding of day to day struggles isn't present.