This month we have a mailbag question from a reader who asks:Hi James,Your newsletter "being in the details" resonated with me.I would like to ask your opinion about managers writing code. I skim PRs but don’t critically review them and don’t write code. Should EMs write code in their day job?Thanks!It's a great question, and given the higher scrutiny we've seen on the role of engineering managers in the past few years, it's worth spending some time on it.Before we go any deeper, the short answe...