Before I had not enough time to gather context, be in the flow, code and test.
Now I work throughout the day, as soon as I have 10/15 minutes I send a prompt to one of my Claude Code so they can make progress on tasks that the teams cannot undertake because too time consuming versus business needs (major migration, architecture changes, etc…)
I've heard this a few times already on Twitter, but wouldn't your time be better spent in other areas? even if it is 10 or 15 mins? I am having a hard time understanding this sentiment from SEM.
If it's something that anyone could do in just 10 minutes, it could be another simple task for the ICs working with you.
You will need ICs to review the code, approve the PR, and this will go to the pipeline and eventually get released. So you won't avoid engineers having the context of this piece of work.
In my opinion, an EM should use these 10-15 minutes for any of the responsibilities that they have in their role.
I have never in 30 years across 10 jobs ever seen it work well when a manager does production code instead of just POCs.
Either you’re going to suck as a manager and not get your team the resources they need, play the political games, etc or you’re going to suck as a developer because you can’t keep your commitments and can’t do the follow through.
Even worse, is a manager who is pushing vibe coded slop.
The best thing a manager can do if they still want to code is R&D level work that developers productize.
I am a staff consultant. If I’m leading a large project, I purposefully don’t commit any code and spend most of my time coordinating between other developers and “the business”. If I do work it’s again an isolated POC.
Great sum up of the Claude Code ecosystem, well explained. The formula 1 analogy is perfect.
I was looking for some resources to onboard ca 50 engineers in my company, and make sure all have the basics in mind. I might take some insights from your article :)
Hi, I tried it, it was pretty fast, and the UI/UX is nice :)
Nice idea overall, I like it.
The top black bar asking you to pay at the end may however be somehow stressfull, especially when you see that a countdown has started, and you need to run to your credit card to not loose your page :p
Before I had not enough time to gather context, be in the flow, code and test.
Now I work throughout the day, as soon as I have 10/15 minutes I send a prompt to one of my Claude Code so they can make progress on tasks that the teams cannot undertake because too time consuming versus business needs (major migration, architecture changes, etc…)
I love it to be able to contribute more
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