completely agree. Even writing a book on "software literacy".
A small side note - most of us will know a manager who "used to code but stopped when went into management". But none of us know anyone who stopped reading and writing English (German, Japanese) when they went into management.
The difference might be that we don't have many companies that can be managed with code, or that a lot of people in management don't need to be there.
Edit: VW is an interesting case in point. It does not matter what a manager says, what the design document lays out. what matters is what the code says. And VW CTO knew this so he made the commits to the code base that tricked the emissions tests. That is management-by-code.
A small side note - most of us will know a manager who "used to code but stopped when went into management". But none of us know anyone who stopped reading and writing English (German, Japanese) when they went into management.
The difference might be that we don't have many companies that can be managed with code, or that a lot of people in management don't need to be there.
Edit: VW is an interesting case in point. It does not matter what a manager says, what the design document lays out. what matters is what the code says. And VW CTO knew this so he made the commits to the code base that tricked the emissions tests. That is management-by-code.