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I am fed up and bored to death with the perpetual tooling renaissance we are having, I love programming but career software is often anything but the good bits of programming. I am interested in transitioning to tech leadership so Im not burnt out on software bullshit and can enjoy coding on personal projects at home.

It sounds a bit like you have a good gig that you enjoy, good for you, but you can't extrapolate like you are. You are being a bit ignorant, frankly, grossly generalizing a career it sounds like you don't understand well.



And yet, I've run across countless "managers" who were previously developers, who had no credentials for management other than wanting to be a manager. Their "training" was to take some sort of corporate HR-provided course to "certify" them, and then being put in charge of other developers.

While there have been a few who weren't completely toxic, the vast majority had no idea what they were doing, struggled mightily, and had very unhappy teams.

> You are being a bit ignorant, frankly, grossly generalizing a career it sounds like you don't understand well.

Yeah, I do understand it well. I had some management experience early on, and was actually good at it, but I hated it because it made me stop doing actual software development.




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