Managers Returning to 'Coding' with AI

Managers Returning to "Coding" with AI We have been talking with other engineering leaders around me about the impact of AI in our profession. Although nobody knows what will happen, I kept thinking about where I'm standing and what others are doing today. There is certainly a trend among managers to go back to building with AI. People who haven't been working as an individual contributor for longer than a decade find themselves building software again; some for production, some for open source, some for fun. All have a mixed bag of reasons. I haven't been coding for almost five years, and now I'm back to contributing to the codebase. I want to uncover why I'm doing it, where I stand and its impact on myself and my team. I believe where I stand matters to my success as a leader, as well as where I'm headed, as many changes will happen on where I stand today. I see the road ahead is (once more and has always been) full of mud, rocky hills and a lot of pain. Based on what I observe,…