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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Hiring AI-native talent means getting people comfortable with technology but lacking business fluency. You can't automate your way around this. Companies need to invest in training, get them in meetings, and teach them how business actually works between humans.

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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.