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		ipaddr on March 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peter principle You've never seen a great developer turn into an awful manager after a promotion and then stay at that level?

datascienced on March 28, 2024 [–]

Most of the time no, they self select out of it and “go back to coding again”.

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