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Quick snapshot of what's been on my desk this week, building the real estate version of my instant lead response system, in public, bugs included.
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šš¶š š® š»š®ššš šÆšš“ where any lead who typed more than one line broke the entire system. Root cause had nothing to do with the AI it was a formatting issue in how the request got built. Fixed by letting the platform handle the formatting instead of hand-typing it myself.
š„š²ššæš¼šš² ššµš² šš'š šæš²š½š¹š š¹š¼š“š¶š° ššš¶š°š². First pass sounded like a form letter. Fixed that then discovered the fix overcorrected and started ignoring real details leads had actually given me. Had to teach it the difference between "don't make things up" and "don't use what you were actually told."
šš®šš“šµš š¶š šµš®š¹š¹šš°š¶š»š®šš¶š»š“ during testing it told a test lead they were "pre-approved" for a property that was never confirmed. That's not a style bug, that's a trust and liability problem. Now it's hard-locked to only reference facts a lead actually stated.
šš¼š»š»š²š°šš²š± šæš²š®š¹ š²šŗš®š¶š¹ š±š²š¹š¶šš²šæš so the AI's reply doesn't just get logged it actually reaches the lead, sounding like a person hit send, not a system.
Nothing about this week was glamorous. Most of it was staring at error messages and figuring out why a lead typing a normal sentence could break a whole pipeline. But that's the actual job and it's exactly why I'm documenting it instead of just posting the finished result.
More on each of these in the coming posts.
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