From Hands-Off to Hands-On - Why Generative AI Lets Engineering Leaders Build Again

By Jiazhen Xie | 9 June 2025

Tags: generative ai, leadership, software engineering, productivity

As an engineering leader, I know how easy it is to lose touch with the hands-on work. You start out loving to code and build things, but the higher you rise, the fuller your calendar gets. Before you know it, days (or weeks) go by without writing a single line of code. This post is about why that happens, what has recently changed thanks to generative AI, and how we can rekindle our creative coding spark even with limited time. Why Engineering Leaders Stepped Back from Coding Moving into leaders...

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