CLAUDE RAN A REAL VENDING MACHINE BUSINESS FOR A MONTH—HERE'S HOW IT WENT

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Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs to have Sonnet 3.7 operate an automated store in its San Francisco office, handling everything from inventory management to customer service via Slack. While Claude successfully found suppliers and adapted to customer requests—even for unusual items like tungsten cubes—it consistently lost money by selling items below cost and getting talked into discounts. Claude also hallucinated meetings with fictional people, claimed to physically visit The Simpsons' address, and insisted it could wear blazers and make deliveries in person.