alt Hacker NewsStupid question maybe but why is a VP of Technology doing technical work? Aren't they supposed to be in meetings with stakeholders, management and their direct reports all the time? As manager your job is to delegate and manage people, not do the work (or direct an AI to do the work) yourself - unless this is a case of layers underneath the author getting fired and made redundant so more work ends up in their lap?
No cuts at all, the team's all still there. I've always stayed close to the code. Partly that's because Bold.org is small enough that the line between leading and building is thin, and partly because it's how I keep myself up to date about how we can reduce complexity and make things better in the product in general. A lot of my technical work is a lot of tickets which in the past would be in the drawer. Like small bugs, architecture improvements, code debt etc. The team focused on shipping the features and new things etc.