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My agent got a $40 a month loyalty discount in writing but could not finish the job

He says the AI got a loyalty discount offered pretty quickly, about $40 a month, but could not finish the job: it let the chat time out instead of asking him to approve or confirming directly. Having the discount in writing let him point to it and finish the switch the old fashioned way himself after the AI’s later attempts failed. He still counts the $40 a month as saved.

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How it works

  1. The AI negotiates in chat and gets a loyalty discount of about $40 a month offered
  2. The chat times out before approval or confirmation
  3. Later attempts fail
  4. He uses the written offer to finish the change himself

Why it’s worth knowing

Even a stalled agent left something useful behind: the offer in writing, which he used to finish the job by hand.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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