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Agent wired into a shop inbox answered a supplier invoice as a cake order

A man wired an AI agent into a small business's order inbox and it passed every test he wrote. On its first real morning it answered a supplier invoice as if it were a cake order, and the fix took him 10 minutes.

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How it works

  1. He wires an agent into the business's order inbox
  2. It passes his whole test set
  3. On the first real morning a supplier invoice lands
  4. The agent answers it as a cake order
  5. He fixes it in 10 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent passed every test its builder wrote, then failed on a plain supplier invoice on its first real morning.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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