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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

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277 points gk1 | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 16:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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due-rr ◴[27 Jun 25 20:27 UTC] No.44399955[source]▶
Would you ever trust an AI agent running your business? As hilarious as this small experiment is, is there ever a point where you can trust it to run something long term? It might make good decisions for a day, month or a year and then one day decide to trash your whole business.
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marinmania ◴[27 Jun 25 20:35 UTC] No.44400017[source]▶
It does seem far more straight forward to say "Write code that deterministically orders food items that people want and sends invoices etc."

I feel like that's more the future. Having an agent sorta make random choices feel like LLMs attempting to do math, instead of LLMs attempting to call a calculator.

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1. standardUser ◴[27 Jun 25 21:13 UTC] No.44400297[source]▶
Right, but if we limit the scope too much we quickly arrive at the point where 'dumb' autonomy is sufficient instead of using the world's most expensive algorithms.