Published on June 30, 2025 3:22 PM GMT

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.