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JimmyJames's avatar

Couple of things. First, "Agentic" refers to people from Agentina. Or maybe the Azores. Who's to say. Second, we had a salesperson from a very large, well-known legal research company do a zoom sales call a couple of weeks ago on the benefits of their new AI-driven research package. It costs more, but it's worth it, he indicates confidently. Until a member of my team, who is clearly well-versed in AI, starts asking him pointed questions about whether the database is "agentic" or some other made-up term. The salesperson's nervous response to, no exaggeration, probably ten inquiries was, "That's a great question. I'll have to check on that." I guess my point is that even the people selling "agentic" stuff don't know what it is. And that's all I have to say about that.

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Jared Blank's avatar

Obviously they need an agentic salesperson.

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Gabbi's avatar

So she fired her one housekeeper to hire two housekeepers hired by a website... because booking cleanings through a third party was somehow easier (no)/ better (no)/ gave her a feeling of more power (yes) than just booking directly with the person she had already hired.

Also misread that term as "agenetic" which I assumed meant "not genetic" and thought it was a tautology, because of course AI doesn't have genes!

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Jared Blank's avatar

a-genetic somehow makes more sense.

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Amy Barzdukas's avatar

Arguably you could get your product in front of all those marketers by using “agentic” or performing other feats of bad messaging 😀

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Jared Blank's avatar

Maybe the agents are just bad at marketing?

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Gary Schnierow's avatar

Please sign me up for the non-published Platinum Medallion offer.

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Jared Blank's avatar

It comes with a $19 house cleaning. good choice!

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Gary Schnierow's avatar

What day works for you?

They are in NYC, which seems impossible. Unless the cleaning job pays $19, plus all you can secretly take.

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Gary Schnierow's avatar

Is the $19 offer available in NYC?

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Jared Blank's avatar

Not if your housekeeper fires you first.

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