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just curious: if you take a junior engineer under your wing, teach them how to build a system, and watch them put code into production

is that not just another version of "shipping code"?

sure it's one degree removed from your physical fingers on the actual keyboard, but that junior only got to ship because of your mentorship/management



Absolutely. When I say I don't want to be in a management role, I mean I don't want to be in the role that most tech companies seem to call "management", which is usually someone mostly completely divorced from actual technical decisions.

Being a force multiplier by being technical leadership to other devs is fine by me. I just don't want to spend all day in an office managing upwards.




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