Offering to do something is usually fine, as long as you do it carefully and stop of the user closes your offer in frustration ("stop bugging me, I have work to

Offering to do something is usually fine, as long as you do it carefully and stop of the user closes your offer in frustration ("stop bugging me, I have work to do"). On the other hand, assuming know what the user "really" wants to do and doing that work ahead of time without asking first is arrogant and frustrating. If this also breaks existing behavior, it's also teaching people to treat your software as unreliable, possibly hostile, unpredictable toy they they should avoid when possible. Tools need to be reliable, and that includes reliably following the user's orders.