I've noticed early into AI adoption in the workplace that some colleagues took advantage of the technology by appearing to be hyper-proactive; New TODs weekly, fresh new refactoring ideas, novel ways to solve age-old problems with shiny new algorithms. Fast-forward to today, and this is occurring two-fold. Not only are they trying to appear more proactive, combining this with the fear of AI layoffs, they're creating solutions to problems before the problem has even been fully defined.

For example, I was tasked to look into a company-wide solution for a particular architectural problem. I thought delivering a sound solution would give me some kudos, alas, I wasn't fast enough. An intern had already figured it out and wrote a TOD. I find myself too tired to compete.