AI is not a replacement for you

There’s a lot of hype right now about AI agents.

Maybe you’ve seen the headlines about 2025 being the year of agentic AI (versus generative AI).

But we’re half way through the year, and so far it seems we’re…not quite there.

I just read a Futurism article that reports that the best AI agents only complete 24% of the tasks they’re given.

If you hired someone and they only did 24% of what you told them to do, they’d be out of a job pretty quickly.

Which is why some companies that rushed to replace human employees with AI are now doing a bit of tail-between-the legs rehiring.

One of my clients spent a boatload on Lindy.ai, and it took months just to get a meeting recorder working. And it still underperforms compared to off-the-shelf tools.

AI Agents are not quite ready to run your business while you sip fruity cocktails on the beach and your bank account racks up Benjamins.

At least not yet…they will better.

And at least not if you care about human connection.

Because you can use AI to write entire email sequences, generate content, organize course outlines, draft sales pages, and build bots that can tie it all together and publish in 10 minutes what used to take 3 hours.

If all you care about is speed or conversion, then you can do that and head for the beach.

But I want something more than that.

In the corporate world we’re seeing humans powered by AI, not replaced by it.

Which is kind of what I’ve been trying to show here: how to use these tools without losing your own thinking, your own voice.

For me, I want connection.

I want to write emails that sound like me. That reflect how I’m thinking, what I’m trying, what I’m learning, and maybe help you do the same.

And that’s why it’s so important not to hand over your thinking to AI.

It can be your partner.

But it can’t replace your perspective.

So if you’re using AI, great.

But make sure it’s you doing the using.

Not just you outsourcing your voice to a bot.

Nathan

P.S. Have you tried building anything with agents, automations, or workflows yet? Hit reply and tell me what you’re exploring, or where you’ve gotten stuck. I’d love to hear it.

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