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Every Tool in My Voice Agents Had a Two-Minute Timeout. Callers Give You Eight Seconds.

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When a web service goes down, the user gets an error page. Ugly, but honest. When a voice agent goes down, the caller gets silence, and silence on a phone line reads as "this business is closed." They hang up and call the next result on Google. Nobody files a bug report. So I now design the failure…

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  1. 2026-10-26 21:35 · DEV Community — AI
    Every Tool in My Voice Agents Had a Two-Minute Timeout. Callers Give You Eight Seconds.

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