This works if there are small tasks that you can take care of pretty easy to stay reasonably current.
There’s a line where as a manager you’ll either do your engineering or management roles a disservice or not. Think of a napoleonic era army — You need to understand whether you are the sergeant who keeps the troops marching and fighting, the junior officer who passes orders on and keeps bullshit away from the sergeant, or the staff officer who makes sure the food and bullets show up, etc.
There’s a line where as a manager you’ll either do your engineering or management roles a disservice or not. Think of a napoleonic era army — You need to understand whether you are the sergeant who keeps the troops marching and fighting, the junior officer who passes orders on and keeps bullshit away from the sergeant, or the staff officer who makes sure the food and bullets show up, etc.