There's a version of the AI conversation I'm tired of.

The one where AI is either coming for everyone's job, or it's a magic button that does the work for you. Both takes miss what's actually happening — at least in mine.

AI isn't doing my job. It's making me more efficient at the parts of my job that were never the point in the first place. And the time it's giving back is showing me something uncomfortable: I had quietly turned strategic thinking into repetitive duty. AI is the thing that pulled me out of it.