Episode 502: Management keeps leaving and I hate using AI to code

Episode 502: Management keeps leaving and I hate using AI to code

From Soft Skills Engineering by Jamison Dance and Dave Smith

March 2, 2026 · 41 min

About this episode

Dave and Jamison discuss employee turnover in management positions and the challenges of using AI in coding.

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi, thank you for the podcast, I am long time listener, first time asker. Something weird is going on at my company. A colleague of my always wanted to get promoted to management, he got the opportunity, but after multiple preparatory meeting for this new promotion, HE QUIT! He did not tell what happened there, only that “it was time for something new”. Now several months later my skip level declared that he wants to be a developer again. Another manager was offered his position, which is a significant promotion (basically head of engineering), which he accepted, but after being included into high level meetings he declared that he is also QUITTING! We now have an interim Head of engineering, who declared that he is only doing this until a replacement is found. Why does no one wants to be in the management? What is happening at these meetings that people leave? Btw. the financial state of the company is not great, but not horrible, the CEO even declared that there won’t be layoffs this year. So what’s going on? I really like working at this company, but I can’t shake the feeling after these events that I am up for a big…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dave, Jamison

Topics covered

  • management issues
  • AI in coding
  • employee turnover
  • company culture
  • job satisfaction

Keywords

  • management
  • AI
  • coding
  • employee turnover
  • job satisfaction

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Organizations: megacorp

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