Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you

Re:Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI ... by osigurdson on Thursday July 31, 2025 @01:23AM (#44742566)

>> This is not a problem that needs LLMs to be solved.

Yes, better customer service is not bounded by physics but it might be bounded by competence or maybe even malice if companies simply want to make the experience horrible so no one ever calls back (suggest starting with Hanlon's razor first however). Regardless, having an agent on our side, fighting against these two forces would be great.

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Re:Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI ... by yoz-y on Thursday July 31, 2025 @03:11PM (#44749040)

My worry with any agent calling is that the other party will just hang up. Why? Because the power is on their side and they know it.

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Re:Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI ... by osigurdson on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:56PM (#44751576)

So the AI on their side will detect the AI on my side, determine that it is AI and hang up?

I don't know if there is anything to back up the hypothesis that they indeed want their systems to be horrible. It is possible, but sometimes, I want to pay more (buy more insurance coverage, etc), so sometimes our goals are actually aligned yet it is still a painful process. Therefore, I think it is more likely that the problem is competence.

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