Almost lost a client when AI scheduling double-booked 3 calls on the same day

Last Tuesday I was at a coffee shop in Austin prepping for a client call when my phone started blowing up. Turns out my AI calendar assistant booked me for a 10am, a 10:30am, AND an 11am with different people from the same company. No idea how it happened, but I had to call each one and apologize, then manually shuffle everything. Took me 45 minutes to sort out and two of them were pretty annoyed. Has anyone else had these smart scheduling tools mess up this bad? I'm thinking about ditching the AI and just using a paper planner again.

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valc9112d ago

Oh man, my AI once tried to schedule a haircut during a board meeting, what a disaster.

cooper.drew12d ago

Valc I swear these things have zero sense of timing. Mine once decided I urgently needed to reorder cat food while I was presenting to seventy people in a quarterly review. Had a full popup on the screen with "50% off on Whiskas" right in the middle of a revenue slide. Karen from accounting still brings it up at holiday parties like it's the funniest thing she's ever seen and honestly it wasn't that funny the first time either.

susan_adams12d agoMost Upvoted

Is it really that bad if people got a laugh out of it?