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by dmkirwan 1236 days ago
I've done this. It was the right decision for me and I have no regrets. However, it is a personal decision and I'm not going to try to convince you one way or another. Rather, I'll share two posts below by Charity Majors which helped me to come to a decision (I'm surprised they haven't featured in this thread yet!). They're well thought out and it helped me to consider all of the impacts that the decision will have.

The engineer-manager pendulum: https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...

Questionable advice - is there a path back from CTO to engineer? https://charity.wtf/2022/07/29/questionable-advice-is-there-...