POV — Nobody Was Replaced By AI

Microsoft cut 4,800 people and said the roles "are not being replaced by AI" — the same quarter it put $2.5 billion into a new AI unit called Frontier. Peter's contrarian take: that's the most dishonest true sentence in tech. AI didn't replace the worker; it replaced the reason to keep the headcount. Like a nail gun on a framing crew — the tool doesn't fire anyone, it shrinks the crew, and the ones who stay are the ones who picked it up. Stop asking whether AI takes your job. Ask whether you're the one holding the nail gun. Learn agentic AI free: https://staas.fund/ai-workshop