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Flanagan: AI isn't reliable enough yet for autonomous multi-task agents

Kieran Flanagan · 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025 · Jul 11, 2025 · at 15:55

Kieran Flanagan, AI implementation lead at HubSpot, discusses current limitations and overhype surrounding autonomous AI agents in GTM.

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“I think there are some good use cases for agents, but I do think that in a lot of cases today, AI is still not reliable enough where you can guarantee an autonomous agent can do multitask goal in a reliable way where it will kind of give you the same thing back each and every time.”

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