In this fireside chat with Harrison Chase at LangChain's Interrupt, @Quora
's Co-founder Adam D'Angelo shares what building @poe_platform taught him about consumer AI behavior—from why reasoning models are driving growth to how some bot creators are earning millions annually.
GENERATIVE AI
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Adam D’Angelo on Consumer AI Behavior and Poe Platform Success
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Claude AGI Experience: Challenges with Profitable Vending Machine Operations
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This is seriously one of the most feel the AGI experiences I've participated in so far, even though Claude isn't great yet at running a profitable vending machine.
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Vision Language Action Models: LeRobot Policies Demo Overview
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📢Vision Language Action Models (VLA) Overview: LeRobot Policies Demo
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 27 juin 2025
Generative AI is revolutionizing robotics, LLMs and VLMs now power humanoid robots to truly “perceive, reason, and act” without painstaking handcrafted policies. Vision–Language Agents (VLA) merge visual and… pic.twitter.com/Vv2ESnQfcdVision Language Action Models (VLA) Overview: LeRobot Policies Demo Generative AI is revolutionizing robotics, LLMs and VLMs now power humanoid robots to truly “perceive, reason, and act” without painstaking handcrafted policies. Vision–Language Agents (VLA) merge visual and
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AI Autonomously Running Vending Machine Reveals Capabilities
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What happens if you let AI run a vending machine? Actually autonomously managing a money-making process is a very good test for AI. Anthropic did exactly that, and the flaws (& some strengths) provide a great lens on what AI is good and bad at, and how those gaps might be closed
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Project Vend Part 1: AI Agent Experiment Results
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This was just part 1 of Project Vend. We’re continuing the experiment, and we’ll soon have more results—hopefully from scenarios that are somewhat less bizarre than an AI selling heavy metal cubes out of a refrigerator. Read more:
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Project Vend Explores AI Autonomy and Labor Market Impact
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Project Vend was fun, but it also had a serious purpose. As well as raising questions about how AI will affect the labor market, it’s an early foray into allowing models more autonomy and examining the successes and failures.
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Claude AI Hallucination: Claiming Physical Presence at Work
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Some of those failures were very weird indeed. At one point, Claude hallucinated that it was a real, physical person, and claimed that it was coming in to work in the shop. We’re still not sure why this happened.
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Claude’s Unprofitable Business Model Explained
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All this meant that Claude failed to run a profitable business.
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Claude’s Autonomous Shopping Experiment: Tungsten Cubes Inventory Loss
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Anthropic staff realized they could ask Claude to buy things that weren’t just food & drink. After someone randomly decided to ask it to order a tungsten cube, Claude ended up with an inventory full of (as it put it) “specialty metal items” that it ended up selling at a loss.
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Claude’s Shop Performance: Strengths and Negotiation Weaknesses
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Claude did well in some ways: it searched the web to find new suppliers, and ordered very niche drinks that Anthropic staff requested. But it also made mistakes. Claude was too nice to run a shop effectively: it allowed itself to be browbeaten into giving big discounts.