[raw_anon_1111]

I have never in 30 years across 10 jobs ever seen it work well when a manager does production code instead of just POCs.

Either you’re going to suck as a manager and not get your team the resources they need, play the political games, etc or you’re going to suck as a developer because you can’t keep your commitments and can’t do the follow through.

Even worse, is a manager who is pushing vibe coded slop.

The best thing a manager can do if they still want to code is R&D level work that developers productize.

I am a staff consultant. If I’m leading a large project, I purposefully don’t commit any code and spend most of my time coordinating between other developers and “the business”. If I do work it’s again an isolated POC.