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The Great Pivot Into Management
They’re losing their lunch to competitors from other departments as AI quickly encroaches into their corporate territory.
Management, let’s face it, are an easy target when it comes to analysing the many problems with the modern day corporate dystopia of software engineering, let alone the other numerous disciplines that they’ve slowly wormed their way into and caused to bloat with incredulous amounts of inefficiency and overstaffing.
I do acknowledge that someone has to be in charge — software engineering isn’t a democracy, as is often said — but, as you can see from even a cursory glance at the state of world politics, for example, it really is best to put someone who knows what they’re doing in charge, or at least someone who can remember their job title, much less spell it on a PowerPoint¹.
Anyway, suffice it to say that entry to this particular track has a very low bar and, as such, along with the asymmetric compensation involved (and free laminated certificates if you even log in to a “training” site, or rather someone from HR does it for you) these days you can imagine how many of them there are lurking around the physical corridors and Team chat rooms of the Grand Game of Software Engineering.
Therefore, you can imagine (and something that I’ve written about many times previously), that the management…
