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Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
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Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#12Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
When I was younger I used to assume that CTO was like the ultimate experienced engineer, and most every CTO I've dealt with in 25 years has been a needle scratch for that assumption.
I've known one semi-decent one in a circa 100 people business. Used to be the head of engineering. But he was fully transactional, sell stuff mode most of the time as CTO. CEO actually said one time that he wondered if he'd "ruined" the guy a little by making him CTO.
He tried to bail me out of some very deep trouble i got myself in. Didn't end up working out, but he was good folk for sticking his neck out for someone on the engineering team when customers were screaming at him over the phone because of my screw up.
Rest of the time, they've been a networking contact of the CEO who has "some tech stuff" on their resume. Last one screwed me over and fucked three years worth of work in one fell swoop (and he admitted he did this for his own gains over slack when challenged on one of my last days at that job). still not over that one.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was younger I used to assume that CTO was like the ultimate experienced engineer, and most every CTO I've dealt with in 25 years has been a needle scratch for that assumption.
There are competent CTOs who are not above getting their hands dirty , and there are career politician type CTOs who have no discernible skills beyond projecting an illusion of technical brilliance. I've seen plenty of both, and I'm sure everything in between exists too.
> career politician type CTOs
Good description; that's been the my majority of companies unfortunately.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#14Being a Chief Technology Officer is no longer the job. We now need an end-to-end AI orchestrator for the corporation in the Chief Agentic Officer role. Dana Lawson is now obsolete and must be let go.
It sure is convenient AI isn't capable of doing the c-suite's job
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#15Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
When I was younger I used to assume that CTO was like the ultimate experienced engineer, and most every CTO I've dealt with in 25 years has been a needle scratch for that assumption.
A CTO once asked me: Why do we have a test and staging environment? Could we propose removing them as cost savings initiative? During a time when cost savings where the number 1 priority.
What a tiring world.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#16Little late to the thought leadership circus. What's next, limp LinkedIn posts only her sycophants like?
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#17Being a Chief Technology Officer is no longer the job. We now need an end-to-end AI orchestrator for the corporation in the Chief Agentic Officer role. Dana Lawson is now obsolete and must be let go.
It sure is convenient AI isn't capable of doing the c-suite's job
The brutal reality being its probably most capable in that domain. They'll freely admit they're not "the never the smartest guy in the room" and their decision record proves it
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#18Being a Chief Technology Officer is no longer the job. We now need an end-to-end AI orchestrator for the corporation in the Chief Agentic Officer role. Dana Lawson is now obsolete and must be let go.
Human C-suites will continue to keep their jobs as long as other humans in similar positions continue to buy into their airy-fairy "strategy" stuff. ;)
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#19Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
I wonder how many people saying similar things have the same background, but having said that she was VP of Engineering at GitHub, and VP of Engineering at Heptio.
And started their career as a sysadmin. I don't know Dana at all, but some of the best kernel and networking people I've met got their start as sysadmins.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was younger I used to assume that CTO was like the ultimate experienced engineer, and most every CTO I've dealt with in 25 years has been a needle scratch for that assumption.
There are competent CTOs who are not above getting their hands dirty , and there are career politician type CTOs who have no discernible skills beyond projecting an illusion of technical brilliance. I've seen plenty of both, and I'm sure everything in between exists too.
How about product only CTOs who quietly hate engineers because they don't know what they do, and they constantly feel threatened