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by carstenhag 429 days ago
Good human support is expensive. You need support agents and people that educate and manage those. It's not easy to scale up and down usually. People also hate waiting times.

AI fixes most of that... Most of the time? Clearly not, but hey.
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EdwardDiego 429 days ago
> Good human support is expensive.

And bad AI support is also proving to be expensive.

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eviks 428 days ago
AI doesn't fix any of that because it's not good. For example, you can easily reduce waiting times to 0 with human support by replying "can't help" to every request. So unless you have good AI support, the fact that it can reduce waiting time is not an improvement.

Same with scaling- what's hard is scaling good quality, not just scaling, so without good AI you've again gained nothing

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