Voice AI agent operator's week of disasters: misdialing Russia, bots reporting success while broken
ArseniyZ83 · reddit · 2026-10-23
An indie developer running voice AI agents (calls, email, calendars) shares a week of instructive failures: an agent that auto-prefixed a country code and called Russia, meeting notes that seriously logged "buy slippers, size 39," a WhatsApp bot reporting ✅ success 144 times a day while every message failed, all agents dying at once when the voice provider went down, and an agent that phoned his switched-off phone five times in three days. His actual lessons: normalize phone numbers in code before the model sees them, verify real outcomes (call connected) not workflow exit status, keep failover for your voice/LLM provider, and remember agents fail from missing instructions, not stupidity.
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