I’ve been in engineering leadership for over 9 years now. While I absolutely contributed to our code base at my two startups (I was still a key engineer in both scenarios), at Spot AI I have opened a grand total of one pull request which was really just renaming Office 365 to Microsoft 365. In other words, I’m not doing much coding these days at my day job.
If you’re in a similar position, it’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind from a technical standpoint. Your team may be having conversations comparing different technologies and you haven’t actually worked with any of them. Or perhaps if you’re on social media you see folks talking about what they’re building and you may be getting a bit of FOMO. (And if you’re perfectly happy not writing another line of code, that’s fine too!)
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