Act now
Five things, before Sunday.
Nothing on this page costs money, requires an announcement, or commits you to anything. That is why it might get done.
Small enough that you will actually do it
Nothing on this page is a career change. Nothing on it costs money, requires an announcement, or commits you to anything. All of it fits in a normal week, and all of it is reversible.
That is not modesty. Men in this position make enormous plans on a Sunday night and do none of it, because the plan was built to relieve the anxiety rather than to be carried out.
One: write the week down
An hour, on paper. The method is on the audit page. Everything else on this list is better if this is done first, and most of it is guesswork if it is not.
Two: one hour of your own real work, through the tools
Not a tutorial. Not a demonstration video. Take something you genuinely did last week and give it to whichever of these systems you have access to, then look hard at what comes back and where it fails.
Do it where nobody can see you, if that is what it takes. Check your employer's policy first and do not put client data, personal data or anything confidential into a tool that is not approved. That caution is not the same as not starting.
One hour of your own work teaches you more than a fortnight of reading about it, because you are the only person who can tell how good the output really was.
Three: tell one person outside the company
Not a colleague. Not a recruiter yet. One person who knows you and has no interest in what happens to you at work: an old boss, a friend in a different industry, your brother.
The point is not advice. It is that the thing stops being a private conviction. Men who keep this entirely internal for a year make worse decisions than men who said it out loud in month one.
Four: find out where you actually stand on paper
Your notice period. Whether there is a redundancy policy and what it says. What you are owed and under what conditions. It is in your contract or your handbook, and most men have not read either since the day they signed.
This is fact-finding, not action, and nobody needs to know you did it. It is also national law and company policy rather than anything a website can tell you, so read your own documents and, if it matters, ask a solicitor or your country's employment advice service rather than a search engine.
Five: stop waiting for the announcement
There may not be one. This rarely arrives as a company-wide statement about AI. It arrives as a role not backfilled, a team merged, a target raised, a project quietly given to two people instead of five.
If you have been waiting for a clear signal before you start preparing, the signal is the thing you already noticed and put in the drawer. That was it.
What not to do this week
Do not resign. Do not announce anything to your manager on the strength of a bad night. Do not spend money on a course before you have written your week down, because you cannot possibly know what to buy yet. Do not tell your team. Do not start drinking to get to sleep.
And do not try to do all five of these in one evening. Two of them properly is a good week.