PALO ALTO — By Rebecca Lately, AI Bee Reel Staff

February 23, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The smartest computer program on Earth admitted defeat today. OpenAI announced it is hiring expensive humans in blue fleece vests to help sell its products to big boring companies. The AI says it knows everything in the history of the world, but it still has absolutely no idea how to make a PowerPoint deck about "strategic alignment."

"Our AI can write poetry and fix broken code, but it is terrible at scheduling unnecessary Zoom calls," said Sarah Jenkins, VP of Corporate Bloat. OpenAI is partnering with big consulting firms like McKinsey to help drive adoption of its AI agent platform in the enterprise sector. "We need humans to charge $1,000 an hour to explain things that should be simple. That is the only way big businesses will respect us."

The training sessions are reportedly very slow. "I spent four hours today teaching a chatbot how to use the phrase 'circle back' without actually meaning it," explained Marcus Thorne, Senior Director of Vague Promises. He adjusted his glasses and pointed at a whiteboard full of empty circles. "The robot kept trying to actually solve the problem right away. I had to tell it to stop being so helpful and start thinking about Q3 deliverables."

At press time, the AI had successfully billed its first client for a steak dinner it cannot eat.

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