We use an "autogenerated" position in several places.
Rather than recreate it each time, make one early on and reuse it.
This removes the creation of new positions during the backend,
which was not concurrency-safe.

Updates #15756

Change-Id: Ic116b2e60f0e99de1a2ea87fe763831b50b645f8
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