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# [The Intern with a Refund Button: Designing a Customer Support Agent at Scale](https://pragmaticstack.in/customer-support-agent-at-scale?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A support agent is the only employee you will ever deploy that can issue ten thousand refunds a second, has read every page of your help center, and will cheerfully invent a return policy if the retrieved documents come up short. Scale that carefully.

Jun 30 · 14 min read · pragmaticstack.in  
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I help enterprises ship AI that doesn’t embarrass them in production.

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