Each episode goes deep with one Senior Python or Django Engineer, Manager, Founder or Maintainer on the choice that everyone faces: lead people, or stay in the code.

We'll talk about the moment they hit the fork, what they chose, what they gave up, and what they'd tell anyone standing at the same crossroads today.

Most career advice for engineers is based on progression, salary and a new job title. People or Code is about the decision making behind taking a new role.

Somewhere while you are doing the job of a Senior Developer, every career hits the same fork: take the path that leads people, or take the one that stays in the code.

Nobody warns you it's coming, and nobody tells you what it costs either way. Each episode of People or Code is an honest conversation with someone who's been there. We'll discuss what brought forward the question for them, what they actually chose and why, and most importantly whether they'd choose it again...

If you're a senior engineer standing at that fork, or someone who's already chosen and isn't sure you got it right. This is for you.

It's also for the engineering leaders hiring those people, and anyone who's ever wondered whether the management ladder or the IC ladder is the one worth climbing.