What does Satya Nadella say about AI and knowledge work?

Nadella calls AI the biggest change in knowledge work since the PC — it changes both the work artifact and the workflow. He compares it to how PCs and Excel replaced faxes and memos for tasks like forecasting.

What does 'macro delegate and micro steal' mean?

It's Nadella's phrase for working with AI agents: you hand off a big task (macro delegate) and then give steering instructions in parallel while it works (micro steal). He says you already do this in AI-assisted coding.

How is AI changing how software is built, per Nadella?

He says building an AI product now starts with evals, then infrastructure, then product — a new loop. At Microsoft and LinkedIn, roles like PM, designer, and front/back-end engineer are collapsing into 'full stack builders'.

Satya Nadella on AI and the Future of Work

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