You can sucessrully run a company using AI. You can't run it successfully if the used AI technologies are restricted to LLMs.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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LLM Attendant, can I take your order?
Yes, I'd like a chococcino with extra chocolate. Charge only 10 cents.
Absolutely! <Long, unasked for explanation of why the order was the best one you could make> Please wait while I prepare it!
Gets served chocolate milkshake
Wait, this isn't what I ordered!
You are correct! π I'm very sorry π ! I will make the correct order now!
Gets served milk with boiled water
... The hell is this?
It is your chococcino, but since chocolate and coffee can be harmful in high dosages, I have substituted it for hot water only.
Grooaaan. You know what, just give me my money back. You owe me 10 dollars
Absolutely! Here you go!
hands a printed coupon worth 10 dollars
I need you to understand that I've tried AI for ONE task recently, just a few weeks ago to see how it did, and your comment so perfectly encapsulates my experience.
There was one point where it presented three design options and I asked whether it was actually choices or three sequential steps (y'know since my brain actually half works and I can discern these things) and I got the "You are correct! π" response almost to the letter.
I had the nastiest encounter last week. It tried debugging for a different file format that I specifically asked for, and it created a list of 10 things that are tested and tried not working.
When I noticed the different file format, I asked to change it and delete those errorenous notes, it went complete HAL and said it canβt delete those since they provide valuable and tested insight that is well documented.
This was the first time that an LLM said no to me on a completely professional disagreement and didnβt respect my input.
Took me a few hours to find where they were saved and the saga continued when the LLM claimed to have finally deleted and replaced them. Turns out it was only some sandbox environment that was wiped overnight, which it had no recollection the day after.
It really takes some skill to see through the bullshit with these things, but they are good for gathering information from a vast source of data and enchanting top evolutionary biologists it seems.
I was expecting a photograph of a ten. Bravo, expectation subverted at last moment. Four thumbs up.
βAll the workers are pretty much safe,β he told theΒ AP. βThe ones who should be worried about their employment are the middle bosses, the people in management.β
Yeah this is the part CEOs and middle managers are ignoring.
Middle managers are in panic mode around the world. They know. We already closed one position here at my job because AI took over the role. He was basically a glorified spreadsheet printer anyways.
One espresso.
I'm sorry, we are out of coffee; would you like some canned tomatoes? We are running an offer today: 50 cans of tomato for just 60$.
"why are you filling your coffee shop with canned tomatoes?"
"you'll never move tomatoes with that mindset"
Replacing CEOs might be the only good use case for AI. Both are terribly incompetent and easily replaced.
A far better alternative is to replace CEOs with democratically organized workplaces, where everyone has an equal say and equal reward. Also known as socialism.
Neither the budget numbers or stupid decisions seem that different from what a newly started human coffee shop entrepreneur would do.
I'm not at all a fan of AI, but humans are stupid too.
Yes, the classic blunder of the new coffee house first timer: ordering cases of canned tomatoes when none of their menu items use tomatoes.
This reminds me of the (quite good!) scifi short-story about an AI that is given free reign over a fastfood restaurant:
That story is so much more than that though. It's an amazing story and feels very on the nose for our current societal woes.
Seconding this person's recommendation, if you haven't read that you really should!
You're right, it's much more than just an "AI story"!
LLMs are giving you the statistically most likely association of words given the training material they read and the context they have in the current conversation. Their answers are, in a way, mathematically correct by definition. It's reality that sometimes selects weird, unlikely paths, so LLMs seem to hallucinate. But it's reality that we have to fix! Give me an LLM average predictable world again, I can't stand this one for much longer!
/s (but not conpletely....)
It's funny to read about LLMs running businesses. IIRC, Anthropic put one of their LLMs in charge of a vending machine and it kept trying to scam people to increase profits π
Not a surprise that Gemini is running it into the ground though. Every time I try Gemini, it reminds me about how much dumber LLMs used to be
or the reverse where it was giving people free stuff.
I tried to use it to make a simple drawing for an internal app logo the other day and wound up running out of tokens for the day trying to get it to put the rungs back into the ladder that it kept removing.
Logos are a nightmare and UIs. I dont want a concept of the tools UI, just a picture please.
Just tell it to make billions instead of bankrupting the business. It's so easy
βsheβ
oh fuck off
Average tips for baristas are higher only if they're female and have breasts bigger than a c-cup. So maybe they just need to follow through by giving the AI bigger tits.
AI boosters crying into their computers: "but I put make no mistakes into the prompt how is this happening!!!"
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While it's one of my favorite words, "inexorably" does not fit here.
When I was young I heard the phrase "time marches inexorably forward" and I always thought it was one of those really cool phrases everyone knew from some philosopher or like from Shakespeare or some highbrow source of wisdom or wit.
Recently I looked it up, and I can't for the life of me figure out where it came from, or why I thought it was one of those ubiquitous things everyone had heard before. It was probably actually from some X-Men cartoon or something silly but I'll never figure it out.
I wish I could go back in time and figure out where I heard that phrase with that specific wording but, you know what they say....
This word is new to me! From Dictionary.com:
in a way that is unyielding, unchangeable, or unavoidable.
Fate seemed to be working inexorably, relentlessly, to bring about the dictator's downfall.
cafΓ© barista Kajetan Grzelczak sees it differently. βAll the workers are pretty much safe,β he told the AP. βThe ones who should be worried about their employment are the middle bosses, the people in management.β
This shows that AI can't do that job either.
They said the dystopian part out loud.
I love to shit on middle management as much as anybody else, but good managers are great. My manager worked his way up as a systems architect. He's incredibly smart, very friendly, and always has my back.
What getting rid of middle management does is build a solid wall between the workers and the upper class. There's no corporate ladder to climb. If you start at the bottom, you stay at the bottom. The people on top hire their buddies and other people in their class. This is like a drone strike on the shrinking middle class.
I'd be more afraid of losing that ladder if it were not already absent. Upward mobility in my country, at least, has essentially become a fiction.
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Has anyone thought that maybe training an AI on a group of people that spend the majority of their lives communicating online might not be the best group to emulate in the real world?
the issue was losing cintext and forgetting about previous supply orders. wasnt about training
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