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The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager


And how to combat it. The story of an EM who created a ChatGPT for the internal docs in a few hours

Most of his days, he is interrupted at least 4–5 times with some random question about legacy parts only he remembers… So he finally decided to be a responsible adult and write down all those answers. A few weeks ago, one of my team members raised in a retrospective how awful was the process of copying data from production to QA buckets. Long story short, I created a simple UI (using ChatGPT, I’m horrible with CSS), and wrote some Python backend to automate the process.

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