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Why Just Adding AI Agents Won't Fix a Stalled Pipeline

Somewhere in the last few months, "we replaced our marketing team with AI" became a headline instead of a warning. ClickUp said it was running with one CMO and three thousand agents instead of fifty marketers.

Why Just Adding AI Agents Won't Fix a Stalled Pipeline

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Somewhere in the last few months, "we replaced our marketing team with AI" became a headline instead of a warning.

ClickUp said it was running with one CMO and three thousand agents instead of fifty marketers.

Meta tried a version of the same idea internally, tracking employee keystrokes to see whether agents could do the job instead.

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Somewhere in the last few months, "we replaced our marketing team with AI" became a headline instead of a warning. ClickUp said it was running with one CMO and three thousand agents instead of fifty marketers. Meta tried a version of the same idea internally, tracking employee keystrokes to see whether agents could do the job instead.

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  • The other one got walked back within months, quietly, after it stopped working.

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