What should make you walk away from a voice-agent pilot? False confirmations
Legitimate-Pride-685 · reddit · 2026-10-02
A vendor-side poster argues that a pleasant demo isn't enough to greenlight a voice-agent pilot: you should test tool failures, caller corrections, and out-of-scope requests. The author's own dealbreaker is an agent confidently claiming an action happened when the backend says it didn't — a recoverable error is fine, but a false confirmation is nearly invisible to callers and should rule a system out even if voice quality and latency are good. The post invites buyer perspectives on elimination criteria.
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