Andy Walsh2x Exited Founder, Startup Strategist & Podcast Host

Why You Can't Automate Your Way Out of Hiring Right

17 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this talk, the speaker emphasizes that business interactions remain fundamentally human-to-human, especially when negotiating deals or contracts. He argues that AI agents will not serve as proxies in such contexts. Consequently, when hiring younger, AI‑native talent, companies must recognize that these candidates often lack business fluency. The speaker advises organizations to invest time and resources in training these hires, exposing them to meetings and the broader human perspective of business operations, to bridge the gap between technical AI comfort and essential interpersonal business skills.

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Business today is still done human to human at the end of the day. Like none of us are going to send in our AI agents as proxies for us when negotiating a deal or a contract. And so, for anybody who is looking at, I would say, hiring a younger generation that has like, is very AI native, but not necessarily business fluent, like that's one thing I would really encourage you to invest your time in to train somebody up or give them more exposure to the meetings, the context, like how things are happening in a human person. Perspective.