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I can’t believe how many small to mid size companies are being destroyed by bad decisions like this.

A friend’s company fired all EMs and have engineers reporting to product managers. They aren’t allowed to do refactors because the CTO believes the AI doesn’t need organized code.

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How do people like that ascend to CTO?

CTO is in many cases a rank more than a role, and given out accordingly. You should never take someone seriously based on their rank alone, much less a CTO.

The Peter Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Or more cynically they reach their level of competence, go one level further and stay there to keep them from ruining the productivity of the people doing the work...

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