i spent weeks assembling an automation that combined our messy data sources into a clean weekly report. the final result looked so effortless that my manager assumed the ai agent had done everything by itself
at a team meeting he praised the assistant as our strongest performer and joked that the rest of us should learn from it. i asked whether software could receive an employee-of-the-month plaque
the laughter stopped when i explained the testing, debugging, data cleaning, and review that made the report trustworthy. the model had accelerated the work, but it hadn't independently defined the project
the next meeting included my name on the slide. the assistant still received an honorary plaque. i put it beside the printer as a warning