Some people like to pretend that Elon Musk is naive and not very bright. You can love him or hate him but that characterization is just silly. Besides being the richest man in the world (all of which he earned) he is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX and its offshoot Starlink, the CEO and product architect of Tesla, founder of The Boring Company and a cofounder of Neuralink.
But for those of us in the software development business, the proof of his brilliance is this tweet:
I strongly believe that all managers in a technical area must be technically excellent.
Managers in software must write great software or it’s like being a cavalry captain who can’t ride a horse!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2022
Just think of how much better all our lives would be if that precept were universally applied.