The future of workplace productivity is just blaming the AI for everything. Boss catches you staring at the ceiling? "Sorry, hit my LLM usage limit." Coworker sees you napping? "Just waiting for my tokens to refresh." The beauty here is that it's actually a legitimate excuse. Those Chinese LLMs aren't free, and companies love their API quotas tighter than their sprint deadlines. By 2026, we'll all be professional prompt engineers who coincidentally spend 6 hours a day "waiting for model responses." Gone are the days of "my code's compiling" as the go-to excuse. Now it's "my code's being generated by an open weight model running on servers I have no control over." Much more believable, infinitely more scalable.