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Why Your AI Automation Estimate Is Probably Wrong

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Last month a client sent me a one-line brief: "Can we have an AI agent handle invoices, CRM updates and the weekly report? Budget is small." I've been writing software for 25+ years, so I know that sentence. It's the start of a project that is either a weekend script or a six-month integration, and…

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