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Re:Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootc... by DelaneyM on Saturday November 12, 2016 @08:44PM (#12941363)
I'm a CTO and active developer with a Harvard MBA, and I think you're nuts.

Not because the opportunities you see aren't there; they are. Not because management isn't losing its lustre in tech companies; it is. But because coding is hard.

I have a great software education (top school, top program), I've had tremendous opportunities to learn from the best and build amazing things from scratch, and I've been coding professionally for 20 years next year. I'm only just now starting to really "get it".

Having a top-3 MBA (I assume you mean Wharton) puts you pretty advanced on the product/management track, one it will take a decade to catch up with as a developer. Embrace that, dive in, enjoy it.

Here's an alternative suggestion: you don't need to code to understand crypto/blockchains/AI/etc. Those are complicated and sparsely understood, and they are math. Knowing what you can do with them and how to apply them in products is much more rare than being able to implement the algorithms. Why not focus on the theory beyond the code?

Re:Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootc... by tigertheory on Saturday November 12, 2016 @09:04PM (#12941438)
Fellow HBSer, thanks for your input super helpful!
Re:Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootc... by rorykoehler on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:43AM (#12942576)
>I'm only just now starting to really "get it".

Can you elaborate please?

Re:Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootc... by vitoc on Sunday November 13, 2016 @12:57AM (#12942085)
I agree, great advice.