It's not at all conspiracy theory. It's just same old over promise and under deliver that Elon does.

After I give feedback to the AI I then ask it if we learned something and then I ask it to store that guidance in a relevant skill file.

I have skill files for everything and anything in my project. Three just for testing - one for frontend, backend, and e2e. I have one just for frontend forms. I have one for project terms, which I ask it to read before doing anything, so it keeps the terms in the project right. I have one for doing db migrations and one for doing backend routes. I have many tens of skills that have been slowly built up like this.

"Ninety percent of everything is crap"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

Most microphones on professional stages are Shure microphones. They cost more than microphones that get equivalent reviews for performance. So why do audio professionals keep buying expensive Shure microphones? Because they have a proven track record of being extremely reliable. No one wants to be responsible for the mic failing during a performance. So people trust Shure to be reliable. Trust builds up over a long time and becomes what we call a brand.

I used to be afraid of Arch, because I don't want a system that takes work because I'm already busy with work. But now I love it, because the LLM can tweak every knob and fix every issue for me, so it ends up being the OS that takes the least work to use. Get an error message? Tell the LLM and they fix it. Something not working exactly like you like it? Tell the LLM and they tweak it for you. This also works to great effect on Win and Mac, but not to the same extreme degree as it does on Linux and especially Arch.

In general you get paid for doing stuff that no one one would do without pay, because it isn't fun. So work is less about having fun and more about what kind of suck you tend to be capable of sucking up.