Hope: I want to become a stronger dev.

Reality: Promoted to management (of AI) without the raise or clout or the reward of mentoring.

> ...the reward of mentoring.

I really feel this. Claude is going to forget whatever correction I give it, unless I take the time and effort to codify it in the prompt.

And LLMs are going to continue to get better (though the curve feels like it's flattening), regardless of whatever I do to "mentor" my own session. There's no feeling that I'm contributing to the growth of an individual, or the state-of-the-art of the industry.

LLMs are similar in a lot of ways to the labor outsourcing that happened a generation or two ago. Except that instead of this development lifting a billion people out of poverty in the third world a handful of rich people will get even more rich and everyone else will have higher energy bills.