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"the manager", personified. Sheesh.

"Code doesn't sell itself" is almost managerial/ceo self-parody -- especially when it's a two-person show (not to mention the score of successful open/open-ish projects that totally and utterly lack a marketer/salesman.)

I think he meant "Code doesn't skim its' own profit."

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There are plenty of skilled and honest managers in tech, so I fail to see how this is "the manager" personified.

The engineer recognizes that with a competent manager things would be in a better place - nowhere does he say that the manager as a figure is redundant, quite the opposite in fact.

If anything this is "founder failure" personified, which is why VCs are absolutely obsessed with founder chemistry.

He or she is saying that he's a personification of the well-known and sometimes-accurate manager cliché that engineers love to hate. Think pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. It's become an abstraction that people use for conversing, including for laughing, so it doesn't go away when you say "I know many contemporary counterexamples".

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