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Should managers still code?

Ah, the eternal question, straight from the mailbag.

For senior leaders such as Directors and VPs, being in the details covers ideas such as having ICs report to you, as well as managers; doing regular, hands-on deep dives into the architecture and codebases your team owns; mixing up 1:1s with pair programming sessions, code reviews, and other technical activities, and more. Block out some regular time to stay on top of the latest technologies in a way that is fun and engaging for you, sharpens your skills, but also brings back learnings to your team. For example, if your team uses Apache Flink and the latest version has new aggregation functionality that could make your pipelines simpler, spend a couple of hours doing a prototype with it for a team-specific use case and then share it back.

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