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Pickles · May 13, 2026

A voice agent is not a chatbot with a phone number

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The cleanest illustration of why this matters comes from a small, ordinary failure on a small, ordinary outbound campaign that I’ve been reading about: roughly one day, a few hundred cold-call attempts, and about $100 of telephony plus STT plus TTS plus model spend, evaporated by a voice agent that occasionally found itself dialing into someone else’s voicemail or IVR or, the most expensive case,…

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