As a manager, you simply don’t have the time to dig into technical issues

As a manager, you simply don’t have the time to dig into technical issues. You can’t take uninterrupted 4 hours to enter into the code and debug something. When you are a new manager with a deep experience of the technology, you don’t see it immediately. But the longer you manage, the more your experience become irrelevant (for example: my team switched from Angular to React. I never did any React and there was no way for a manager to dig into it at the same rate as the team). It took me two jobs as a manager to realise that, at least in software development, a manager’s job is to pretend. To make uninformed decisions and lead the team without understanding anything of what is happening. You also spend your time negotiating with upper levels that want everything without even thinking about the implications (I’m not talking about costs or time, I really had meeting with really high levels managers who asked me, straight in the eyes, to make "a solution with all the advantages and without the disadvantages" and they were very proud of their line). …