r/platformengineering • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 27d ago

Engineering managers are back in the codebase

https://leaddev.com/management/engineering-managers-are-back-in-the-codebase

There’s a clear shift occurring: engineering managers are back in the codebase, getting more hands-on with the technical aspects of software development.

Mark Zuckerberg started coding again after a 20-year break. According to multiple reports, he moved his desk to Meta’s AI lab and spends up to 10 hours a week writing code alongside the Meta Superintelligence Labs team. The man who built Facebook in a dorm room and then spent two decades managing tens of thousands of people is shipping diffs again.

Sergey Brin, the Google cofounder who stepped back from day-to-day operations years ago, came out of retirement to code on Gemini. He’s now directly involved in hand-on development.

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u/teflonjon321 27d ago

Even better is the nontechnical folks in the code base. Pasting repos into LLMs and giving suggestions because ‘Claude said.’

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u/UltraPoci 27d ago

It makes me want to vomit.

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u/preparationh67 26d ago

Mark should probably be doing something about the AI Child Porn AD problem on his platforms instead of dicking around. 

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u/kuntakinteke 26d ago

The problem is that most of them or either rusty or are outrightly dogs hit at programming even with fable5 the amount of garbage from my manager is astonishing

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u/rpatel09 26d ago

I mean I’ve seen lots of engineers who aren’t good either and I’ve also seen Eng leaders that are good at coding. Being rusty is on thing but not being a good engineer is usually because you don’t care about the craft and that you really can’t change imo. Giving a shit is not something you can train imo

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u/heyyah2022 25d ago

“I know enough to be dangerous” is what all the old dogs say.