
· Prakash Natarajan · AI
AI Agent vs. Chatbot for Customer Support
A chatbot follows a script and hands off when a question falls outside it. An AI agent reads the ticket, checks your systems, and finishes the job itself.

A chatbot follows a script and hands off when a question falls outside it. An AI agent reads the ticket, checks your systems, and finishes the job itself.

System design, tool contracts, memory, guardrails, evals, orchestration, and human handoff — the complete engineering breakdown for building AI agents that reason, act, and recover on their own.