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What Satya Nadella says about AI and the future of work
Speaking live from Davos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella frames AI as the biggest shift in knowledge work since the PC — a change to the work artifact and the workflow, not just the tools. He describes managing fleets of agents, a new way of working he calls 'macro delegate and micro steal', and how building AI products now starts with evals and collapses old roles into full-stack builders. Quotes are verbatim; sign in to read the full transcript.
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AI is the biggest change to knowledge work since the PC
This is probably the biggest change in knowledge work since PCs.
Satya Nadella on AI's Business Revolution (LIVE from Davos) · All-In
The new way of working: 'macro delegate and micro steal'
We macro delegate and micro steal.
Satya Nadella on AI's Business Revolution (LIVE from Davos) · All-In
Building an AI product now starts with evals
To build an AI product today, there's a complete new workflow. It starts with evals.
Satya Nadella on AI's Business Revolution (LIVE from Davos) · All-In
We need a new metaphor for the computer in the AI age
We kind of need now a new concept metaphor for how we use computers in the AI age.
Satya Nadella on AI's Business Revolution (LIVE from Davos) · All-In
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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'.
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