Promoted to dev lead and I actually hate it.

I think they made me dev lead because I was closing more story points than 5 other developers combined (plus I was the cleanup crew for all of those 5 developers' bugs plus my own bugs – that's not even counted in the story points metric because bugs often got fixed before they were pointed)

But now here's the problem 😔 I actually hate being dev lead. I hate repeating myself to people who don't remember what we clearly already talked about in a meeting 2 days ago. I hate finding out that one guy on the team lies about how complex his tasks are so that he can just fart around and do nothing while everyone else thinks he's doing something really hard. I hate slowing myself down to the pace of the slowest developer on the team so that I can screenshare and watch him type 20 words per minute and remind him why he opened a window. I don't like saying stuff like "let's look at that error you mentioned, can you show it to me?" and then he says "sure" and he launches into a 4 minute soliloquy that has absolutely nothing to do with the error he mentioned and I listen thinking "surely he'll come back to the task any second now, it sounds like that was the end of the detour"…but no. It's just one detour after another, until I interrupt him and say, again, "actually, let's just look at that error you mentioned, can you show it to me?"

I especially don't like all the meetings. I don't like how slow spoken conversation is compared to reading. I don't like needing to interrupt people in meetings – but if I don't interrupt them then they literally won't stop repeating the same exact sentence that they already said 6 times. I'm lucky if their broken record sentence repeating is even on topic at all, most of the time it's not.

I don't even truly believe that dev productivity is teachable. I think it's more like some people have focus issues for chemical reasons that are totally beyond anyone's control, including their own.

I'm pretty sure my whole team has scrambled eggs for brains.

What next? I hate my new role. I miss just writing code and closing tickets and fixing bugs and being blissfully unaware of all of the rest of this.