[Linkpost] “Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop?” by Gunnar_Zarncke

Anthropic (post June 27th):

We let Claude [Sonnet 3.7] manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy.

But the AI make numerous business-critical errors including repeatedly selling products at a loss, offering excessive discounts, and making fundamental accounting mistakes.

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First published:

June 30th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xYPk8yRDAeq9og38u/project-vend-can-claude-run-a-small-shop

Linkpost URL:
https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

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