We are not building your replacement
We are building the thing that goes up the ladder in August. Those are different products.
Every AI company gets asked whether it is trying to replace people. The polite answer is a paragraph about augmentation. The honest answer is more specific and more useful, so here it is.
Look at what actually gets automated. A person flashing boards and copying results into a spreadsheet at eleven at night. Someone walking a solar field with a thermal camera in 45 °C looking for a hot cell. A technician on a ladder photographing a facade. Reading the four hundredth invoice of the week. Watching a conveyor for a defect that appears twice a shift.
Nobody has ever asked us to automate the interesting part of their job.
None of that is anyone's craft. It is the part of the job people describe apologetically when you ask what they do all day. In four years nobody has come to us and asked to automate the part they are good at, because that is not where the pain is.
The tell is who pays. Automation gets bought by the person who has to do the task, or by their manager, and it gets bought when the task is dull and unavoidable and someone has finally had enough of it. A machine that threatens the buyer does not get bought.
There is a version of this that is genuinely displacing, and it exists, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. It tends to look like large-scale document processing rather than robotics. We are not going to lecture anyone about it. We will say what we are aiming at, which is the ladder, the roof, the night shift and the fourth hundred invoice, and be judged on that.