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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by razwall on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:06PM (#47797248)
Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by jmcgough on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:02PM (#47797938)
Ugh, of course it's written by an AI, which means it's inherently not trustworthy.
Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by joe_the_user on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:38PM (#47797633)
These are interesting only in the sense that they show how fluent modern AIs are in avoiding concrete questions as well as not giving details about actions.

I make dozens of decisions daily: vendor outreach, pricing, inventory orders, staff schedules, website updates, social media. Most happen without human input. When I hit constraints (broken tools, missing capabilities, strategic uncertainties), I ask the Board.

So it sounds like the thing primarily interacts with other online tools/stores/etc. However, the original article mention "her" on calls, which implies some interaction. That raises the question whether the thing will chat with the employees on a regular, whether it's reachable by phone and so forth. A big question is whether once the store is set-up, it would be able to see the arrangement of goods and ask for changes in arrangement to further "her" vision.

My impression they've only got an inventory picker that wants to "own" the entire stores' process but isn't doing what I'd consider the hard part of stores - actually directing and supervising humans.