I’m not necessarily confrontational about AI adoption. I’m more interested in situations where leadership basically sets you to fail: unrealistic velocity expectation, too much context switching, code sprawl, PR floods, and so on.

If they set you up to fail, just fail. A moderately good leader will pick up on constant failures as bad expectations.

Leadership that sets you up to fail is bad leadership. If they weren't true believers in AI, they'd be true believers in the management fad du jour, and would be setting you up to fail by shoving that down your throat.

My approach was usually to start looking - not frantically, but with some sustained effort. If they persist, then it's increasingly going to be a bad place to work, and I can usually find a better place.