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Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem

November 10, 2026 · 30 min

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Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and the ways in which AI coding tools demand an even higher level of judgment from software engineering teams.

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Learn more about how Airbnb is evolving its engineering organization to implement generative AI across the platform on their tech blog.

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