How is that not what happened? Torvalds wrote code, and now he manages other people writing code. He's not a people-manager; he is at least still in a technical role, but he's not a dev anymore.
I assume he's in his current position by choice. He pretty much says so: "It is an interesting job".
He still deals with plenty of code; he just doesn't write original code. Calling it a "managerial or administrative type role" as the previous comment did is somewhat lacking in nuance, IMO.
He's not a developer and hasn't been for a while. He's a TPM by sounds of it. Don't understand the downvotes but perhaps that's down to junior developers who don't understand what a TPM is.
He still deals with plenty of code; he just doesn't write original code. Calling it a "managerial or administrative type role" as the previous comment did is somewhat lacking in nuance, IMO.