Good advice here for managers who still want to stay close to the code: nemethgergely.com/coding-as-an-e…
Writing code is generally not an effective use of a manager’s time. If they work on critical tasks, they don’t have the time to own it, so it gets dumped off on the team to clean up.
A manager's job is to support their team, and—when they have time—good managers pick up the boring, dirty work to free up their team to execute the important tasks.
