AI IMPACT ABOUT · WHAT IS THIS WIRE?
The story so far.
Shift is a living wire of how AI is reshaping knowledge work — one role at a time. Type what you do, see what's automating, what's augmenting, what stays stubbornly human, and where the bridges go if you ever want to pivot.
It's built by one person. It's free, has no signup, no tracking pixels, and no third-party scripts. Just static pages, with sources, that try to be useful.
Who this is for
Anyone whose job has a screen and a deadline — designers, lawyers, teachers, accountants, marketers, doctors, journalists, engineers, support agents, project managers, recruiters, translators, architects, and the next many roles we haven't published yet.
It's also for the people in those roles who can read the news but can't yet place it. The headline says "AI is replacing X." The truth is usually messier and more interesting. 35 role dispatches, with confidence labels, are an attempt to put the messy interesting version somewhere you can bookmark.
The cosmos this lives in
Shift is a planet in a small set of related sites — what we call the cosmos:
- 🌍 Earth — aguidetocloud.com — Microsoft cloud tools and certifications
- 🪐 Brain Bar — cmd.aguidetocloud.com — every Microsoft acronym, decoded
- 🪐 Shift — you are here
Each planet has its own atmosphere — its own font, palette, voice, and tech. The only rules across the cosmos are quality, value, usability, honesty, don't collide, and a strict firewall between free and paid surfaces.
Who built this
Shift is by Susanth Sutheesh — a Microsoft solution engineer in Auckland, New Zealand who spends a lot of weekends figuring out which way work is going and writing it down for people who don't have the time.
Most of his other projects live on Earth (acronym battles, certification study guides, mind maps, AI news, license pickers). Shift is different — it's the planet that's not about Microsoft. It's about the rest of us, in the year AI started doing knowledge work.
How to read a dispatch
- Pick your role from the launcher on the front page, or browse all dispatches.
- Read the headline. That's the bumper-sticker — Heavy / Moderate / Light pressure.
- Read the deck (the italic line under the headline). That's the trajectory in plain English.
- Read the body (two columns). That's the editorial wrap on the data.
- Look at the instrument panel. The needle is the active year's reading; the trajectory pills under each dimension show 2026 → 2030.
- Toggle the time machine (2026 / 2028 / 2030) to see how the needles move.
- Read the skills. Confidence pills tell you how much weight a claim carries; sources are linked where high-confidence.
- If a "Sush's honest take" pull-quote is there, read it. If not, that's deliberate — silence is more honest than forced commentary.
- Always read the method if you doubt a number.
Disagree?
Some of these calls will be wrong. If you read your role's dispatch and we've got something materially off — a skill we listed as automating that isn't, a force we missed, a citation that's stale — please say so via the A Guide to Cloud contact. Updates are public, with date and reason.