The Three Seats
The shift does not price every career stage the same way. Early, the cheap years that used to train you are being automated. In the middle, your slow years are worth more than your output and do not transfer by being right in the room. Senior, most of your value is multiplying other people's judgment, which cannot be verified from the outside.
Framework 7 of 10 · Chapter 7: Where You Stand
"Where do I stand in this" is usually asked as a question about title. The useful version is a question about pricing: what does this shift make cheap, and what does it make expensive, where you actually sit.
The answers are not the same in the three seats, and the advice that helps one actively harms another.
Early
The cheap years are going away. The queue of low-stakes work that trained the people above you is being automated, sometimes by you personally.
Take the checklists your seniors hand you. They are real. They are scar tissue, written down. But holding the list is not the same as having the scars, and the only substitute anyone has found is contact. Find the unglamorous pile your system keeps, the exceptions, the hand work nobody counts, and take some of it on purpose while the stakes are still small.
Middle
The slow years you already got are worth more than your current output, and they do not transfer by you being right in the room.
The first time you try to hand them over, you will hand over a checklist instead, because a checklist is the shape knowledge takes when you are in a hurry. Teaching is part of the job now. You will be bad at it before you are passable, and there is no route around that stretch.
Senior
Most of your value is now in multiplying other people's judgment, and judgment cannot be verified from the outside. You can watch someone do everything right for six weeks and still not know.
You sign the form anyway. Then you stay close enough to find out.
Where it fails
Reading only your own seat. The seats have to negotiate with each other, and each one systematically misreads what the others are protecting.
Assuming the early seat still works. Advice built on an apprenticeship queue that no longer exists is the most confidently wrong advice in circulation right now.
Practice
The next time someone junior brings you finished work to sign, do not start with your answer. Ask for one real case, and sit with them while they find it. Notice how long it takes, and how much you want to take the keyboard.