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📣 kajolshah_bt

What 'AI feature' created negative ROI in production?


Not demos, real usage. What broke first: data quality, evals, cost/latency, user trust, or support load?”


  👤 rtbruhan00 Accepted Answer ✓
We implemented an AI-powered customer support triage system that initially looked promising in testing. In production, it actually increased our support costs by ~30% because:

The AI would confidently misroute 15-20% of tickets, requiring human review of ALL AI decisions and the Customers lost trust after a few bad experiences and started explicitly requesting human agents also Support agents spent more time correcting AI mistakes than they saved

The breaking point was data quality - our training data was too clean compared to real customer queries. We ended up rolling back to rule-based routing with AI as an optional suggestion tool instead.