He's stated as much through the years - noting his lack of applicable development or project management skills.

I don't think that's a hit on it's own, but without someone like a Ng/LeCun/Bengio the organization lacks a critical link with reality.

I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that - unlike one of my fellow RationalWiki editors who literally criticised effective altruists for (gasp) paying other people to do stuff for them, which is like the foundation of capitalism and the modern economy (it's also known as division of labour).

Does the CEO of a software company have to know how to code? Does it matter? Maybe the CTO should - maybe - but the CEO?