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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: 0.215s | source
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seidleroni ◴[27 Jun 25 17:37 UTC] No.44398700[source]▶
As much as I love AI/LLM's and use them on a daily basis, this does a great job revealing the gap between current capabilities and what the massive hype machine would have us believe the systems are already capable of.

I wonder how long it will take frontier LLM's to be able to handle something like this with ease without it using a lot of "scaffolding".

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poly2it ◴[27 Jun 25 20:09 UTC] No.44399841[source]▶
Humans also use scaffolding to make better decisions. Imagine trying to run a profitable business over a longer period solely relying on memorised values.
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1. samrus ◴[28 Jun 25 01:54 UTC] No.44401811[source]▶
But the difference is who makes the scaffolding.

We dont need a more intelligent entity to give us those rules, like humans would give to the LLM. We learn and formalize those rules ourselves and communicate within each other. This makes it not scaffolding, since scaffolding is explicit instructions/restraints from outside the model. The "scaffolding" your saying humans are using is implicitly learnt by humans and then formalized and applied at instructions and restraints, and even then, human thay dont internalize/understand them dont do well in those tasks. So scaffolding really is running into the bitter lesson