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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

What Founders Can Learn From Students Cheating With AI

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Marketing, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Eric and Neil break down 3 marketing roles they believe AI will kill first, why entry-level execution work is getting compressed fast, and what marketers need to do now to stay valuable. They also cover why specialists are likely to beat generalists, why human judgment matters more than ever, and how AI is reshaping the structure of marketing teams. They also get into what separates unacceptable, capable, adaptive, and transformative AI users, why most teams are still behind, and how marketers can move beyond basic prompting into real workflows that actually save time and drive results. Key takeaways ◾ Entry-level execution-heavy marketing roles are under the most pressure from AI. ◾ Specialists with strong judgment are becoming more valuable than generalists. ◾ Most teams are still early in their AI adoption and workflow maturity. ◾ Prompting matters less than context, systems, and human review. ◾ AI can increase output fast, but teams still need people who can think strategically. Chapters (00:00) 3 marketing roles AI will kill first (02:42) Why data analysts, junior writers, and generalists are at risk (05:25) The 4 levels of AI marketing maturity (08:07) Why most teams still feel behind (09:40) Why mental health is becoming a bigger AI issue (13:25) The AI tools that can augment your content team

Transcript

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0:00.0

When a buyer asks AI for a solution like yours, does your business come up?

0:04.5

Most companies have no idea.

0:06.2

And by the time they find out, they've already lost the deal to someone who did.

0:09.9

HubSpot AEO helps you show up in those moments, what the right answers buyers are looking

0:14.7

for.

0:15.6

Before the first click, before the first form fill.

0:18.6

That's the moment HubSpot AEO is built for. Check out Hubspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses. These seven prompts cut our ads spend by 52% in 60 days. I'm like, oh, that's totally AI generated. I'm like, what are the prompts? I don't know. I don't remember any of these wrong. So here's the thing. Let's talk about prompts for a second. I think having to remember prompts and like saving all these prompts is theater. I think it's unnecessary to have this stuff because I don't remember the prompts. You don't remember the prompts. And the agents themselves are getting much better at prompting. So really it's just about studying, doing more than anything, and they're just constantly

0:55.6

experimenting.

0:56.6

But I agree with Eric, and but back in the day when you started seeing chat GPT first

1:01.6

come out, prompts were really important.

1:03.8

It's not the same anymore.

1:05.2

And the big mistake we're seeing people make now isn't really related to prompts.

1:09.2

It's actually what data are you feeding them

1:11.9

before you do anything else. And I'll give you an example of this with a homework because I see a lot

1:20.0

of kids these days cheating. And I was talking to some students. I was speaking out of college.

1:26.3

And when I say cheating, they were using AI to do their homework.

1:29.8

And they were telling me how AI does a terrible job.

1:32.9

And I was breaking out to them, like, you're thinking about it the wrong way.

1:36.6

And I was like, why does it do a terrible job?

1:38.2

They're like, if I asked it 10 questions, you know, one or two of them will be off.

1:42.9

And I was like, before you actually have AI help you,

1:46.6

are you actually telling it what to pull from, what to read, what's your test based on?

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