[ttarr]

> Managers unblock their team and get out of the way.

You're talking as if Devs are brainless outside of programming, let's babysit them.

The best development managers/directors I've worked with were hands on, and they knew significantly more than me, they knew their stuff really well.

[kaba0]

It has absolutely nothing to do with capability of one person vs the other, it is about what is part of one job vs the other.

As a developer I’m very ”thankful” to a good manager shielding me from all the bullshit customers come up with — if they do their work well they indeed help productivity big time.