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Build my clean-eating Instacart basket — it shopped for a family of 12

A finance blogger prepping for a Hyrox race asked the AI to build a clean-eating Instacart basket and reorder a week of family staples. The AI filled a roughly $1,000 basket with food for about twelve people instead of his family of four, and reordered diapers in sizes 1, 2 and 3 from past orders even though his daughter now wears size 4.

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How it works

  1. Ask the AI for a clean-eating basket plus a reorder of family staples
  2. The AI reads past Instacart orders
  3. Assembles a roughly $1,000 basket scaled far beyond a family of four
  4. Adds every diaper size from order history, including sizes the child has outgrown

Why it’s worth knowing

It reordered diapers in three sizes his daughter had already outgrown, because 'we bought these before' was the only logic it used: order history with no notion of a growing child.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on yetanothervalueblog.com. See the original ↗

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