Tens of thousands of human salespeople are now selling AI 'painkillers' to enterprises
arieljalali · x · 2026-09-05
Continuing the thread, arieljalali notes every tech cycle promises to remove humans from sales — 'no more used car salesmen and realtors' — yet he's training tens of thousands of former enterprise connectivity salespeople to sell AI painkillers and outcomes. His point: even as LLMs reshape software buying, human sellers aren't going away; they're being repurposed to pitch AI solutions to enterprises.
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