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James King

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Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Or you say this, this happens.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

And then you talk to an employee and you yell very vague things and you're like, wait, or you ask them to do something and they go and, you know, it's like, wait, that wasn't what was asked of you.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

I saw it was pretty point, but maybe I wasn't clear.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

And you gotta try to clear up your explanation to them.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Um, like the whole notion of go get me a rock, you know, as a manager, you gotta be extra clear where on like programmer, when we're coding,

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

We tell the machine exactly what we wanted to do.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

You are doing this.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

And they don't interpret it any other way.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

They don't sit there and be like, well, they're telling me to turn the light green.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Well, all right, I'm going to turn it green.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

I'm not going to ask, well, do you want lime green?

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Do you want hue green?

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Do you want this?

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Or do, hey, how about blue?

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Or like, bright icing would be better here.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

It's just, I'm going to turn green.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

It doesn't know if it has no other say to it.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

So yeah, I just think that's probably the hardest thing, especially as programmers going from being very literal to dealing with vague information.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

Yeah, I'm not.

Ask the Programmer
Ask The Programmer Episode 252 - Can a Technical Manager be a Programmer?

It's always great to take your best programmer and make him a manager of programming, programmers and stuff like that.