Outside of those things there's no blur. The article is wrong it's not getting this way because of AI or because of remote work. It's this way because companies are purposefully misunderstanding the EM role.
No they can't. I've never seen this go well. The use of AI in this way will merely start a conversation with your devs and if you insist on your opinions based on what the AI told you you're going to lose massive amounts of trust with your team.
> ICs can operate at a higher strategic level without getting bogged down in mechanical work.
ICs have always been forced to be strategic with their architecture and specific technical decisions only to get the credit taken away from them by upper management when it goes well and play defense in the blame game when it doesn't go so well. Nothing has changed.
He got very angry with me when I told him that I'd need to rewrite the thing from scratch.
I’ve always been vocal about this ... engineers are at the core of our business because they build and ship. Everyone else, myself included as an engineering manager exists to support them in doing exactly that. We don’t create value by holding meetings, drafting roadmaps, or removing blockers ... those are simply the means to an end. We create value when a product is built and shipped. It really is that simple.
taway1874•2mo ago