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jr3592yesterday at 11:32 PM1 replyview on HN

> No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams.

This has always been the case where I work, long before AI.


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CryptoBankeryesterday at 11:37 PM

> This has always been the case where I work, long before AI.

And surely the place you work hired with this in mind. Many places have not, and yet now expect PMs who haven’t coded in years, or in many cases not at all, to contribute to their products’ codebases.