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One big danger of AI tools in the workplace is how much easier they make it to pursue side quests.

Side quests used to be self-regulating. You'd think "wouldn't it be cool to try this?", estimate the effort at half a day, and move on. Now you tell yourself "it takes only five minutes", and decide to just go for it out of curiosity, but it's of course never just five minutes.

The result is that you can get to the end of a day having completed ten low-priority items on your todo list very efficiently, while making zero progress on the one high-priority item that needed your attention most. Your only real defense is knowing what the highest-priority item on your list is and holding yourself accountable for making progress on it.

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