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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: his own maintenance guy is out-adapting most corporate AI rollouts

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TL;DR: Steve Ballmer's own maintenance guy is proof that competence is shifting away from credentials and toward who's willing to just ask AI first. That's not rhetorical — it's already showing up outside Ballmer's living room. DEWALT ran a six-country survey of tradespeople this spring: 90% believ…

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  1. 2026-08-23 16:19 · r/artificial
    Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: his own maintenance guy is out-adapting most corporate AI rollouts

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