Chad@chadbailey59May 1, 2026
*Patience* is an under-appreciated attribute of voice agents.
Several times we've seen the fact that voice agents are infinitely patient be a big and unexpected win in a production deployment.
- In healthcare settings, there's often a default expectation that elderly people will not want to interact with "new technology." But infinitely patient voice agents are so helpful that elderly patients often become early adopters.
- In user research interviews and job interviews, removing any concerns that the interviewee might be "wasting someone's time" changes the conversational dynamic in a hugely positive way.
- As Chad shows in the Gradient Bang game, voice interfaces to complex software systems can be self-describing and respond to questions about what the software can do. This gives users a built in, infinitely patient, expert teacher for the software itself.
Chad@chadbailey59One of my favorite aspects of AI is something I call "infinite patience." Gradient Bang has tons of fractally-complicated game mechanics, but you learn about them by just asking questions. Your ship AI will just keep answering, no matter how basic.
(Plus, it won't judge you for
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