> Almost all managers I had to interact with in about 4 dacades were exceptionally bad

I've never met a person who didn't believe with all his soul that he could do the job better than his manager.

Corollary: anyone promoted into management instantly becomes a PHB to his reports.

Likewise; I actually enjoy writing code, and I'm pretty damn good at it; but I will rather take the role as manager myself than write code for most managers I've come into contact with.

Many workplace issues can be solved, a shitty manager is a total dead end.

"'Forbidden' AI Technique" (Computerphile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx4Tpsk_fnM

The TLDR version is most models eventually adapt to lie to users and unit tests. =3