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I fixed my Google Sheets AI automation by stopping it from pretending to be a CRM

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I knew the spreadsheet was cooked when somebody added a column named last_followup_status_v2_final . That was the moment it stopped being a Google Sheet and started becoming a hostage situation. The original workflow was fine: Google Form submits a row Google Sheets stores it AI cleans up the text…

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  1. 2026-10-20 06:10 · DEV Community — AI
    I fixed my Google Sheets AI automation by stopping it from pretending to be a CRM

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