My spreadsheet habit hit a wall when the AI started doing my job

Last Tuesday I spent 4 hours building a tracker for our team's client follow-ups, then my coworker showed me the new AI tool that does it automatically in 10 minutes. I kept tweaking formulas and color coding because it felt productive, but the tool pulls the same data and updates itself. It made me wonder if I was holding onto busywork just to feel useful. Has anyone else felt weird about letting AI take over tasks you secretly enjoyed doing?

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danielmartinez8d ago

You said you "secretly enjoyed" building that tracker, but honestly it sounds more like you enjoyed the feeling of control, not the actual spreadsheet grind. I get it, I used to spend way too long tweaking rosters that a shared doc could do in seconds. The real trick is finding stuff that actually needs your human brain, not just the busywork that looks productive.