Steps to become a senior programmer:
1. Install my /teach skill
npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill teach
2. Create a new working directory on your laptop
mkdir junior-to-senior
cd junior-to-senior
3. Kick off your coding agent in the directory
claude
4. Copy this prompt
/teach me how to be a great strategic programmer. My opinion is that AI is eating 'tactical, on-the-ground' programming. The day-to-day work of a developer involves not only coding, but also planning, QA, codebase design, and much more. I'm interested in learning the strategic skills - that, in a previous era, would take me from junior to senior - but in this era are table stakes.
5. Paste it into the coding agent
Below is an example of what the first output will look like. I used Opus 4.8, medium effort.
6. Continue working with the agent until you're a senior