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I spent three weeks manually responding to customer emails before realizing I was basically a very expensive chatbot. That's when I decided to build my first AI agent, and honestly, I wish someone had told me it would only take 2 hours. Photo by Com...

Apr 14 · 9 min read · novatool.hashnode.dev  
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