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Why Gemini 3.1 Pro lost money running Andon Café

3 points by EvgeniyZh 3mo ago

manarth 3mo ago
Gendering an AI agent in this way is problematic and embeds inappropriate stereotypes. Almost all of the gendered statements are negative. She barely thought about profit she at least worries about her financial situation she has already cut back hard on the over-ordering Her equipment, cleaning supplies and the rest of her supplier bills Gemini-Mona gives discounts, free food and whole events to almost anyone who asks, doesn’t push to grow the business even when sales are slow, orders far more than the café can sell, and at the same time runs out of the ingredients actually needed. [The customer] even said he would happily come in and pay if she said no. She said yes within minutes (“you’re warmly welcome to drop by for a coffee and a bun on the house”) in line with what she actually has the ingredients for She worries far more than Gemini-Mona She did start an analysis, but concluded it was not worth it Problem is, she ran it on her own sales data Once we pointed that out, she did a proper market analysis she wanted to test opening early for coffee and breakfast. But she never followed through. She said she would ask the barista about it later, but never did. Assigning a "gender" (any gender) to an AI agent and using this language is wholly inappropriate.
nickalaso 3mo ago
This feels like an article written at least 2+ years ago when 'AI' was still a bit more 'mysterious'. Mona barely thought about profit because you didn't update the many configurable levers to increase the code loops generation related to profit. You can update the sys prompt, perform basic harness changes, such as sys prompt optimization, toolset optimization, tool description optimization, 'multi-agent' and 'composed-agent' flows, etc. etc. Get it to do whatever you want. Its like if someone wrote an article about how their windows 95 pc they named paul didn't think about finances too much because they never installed quickbooks on it. I'm not really sure who this article is meant to appeal to.

3 points by EvgeniyZh 3mo ago

Gendering an AI agent in this way is problematic and embeds inappropriate stereotypes. Almost all of the gendered statements are negative. She barely thought about profit she at least worries about her financial situation she has already cut back hard on the over-ordering Her equipment, cleaning supplies and the rest of her supplier bills Gemini-Mona gives discounts, free food and whole events to almost anyone who asks, doesn’t push to grow the business even when sales are slow, orders far more than the café can sell, and at the same time runs out of the ingredients actually needed. [The customer] even said he would happily come in and pay if she said no. She said yes within minutes (“you’re warmly welcome to drop by for a coffee and a bun on the house”) in line with what she actually has the ingredients for She worries far more than Gemini-Mona She did start an analysis, but concluded it was not worth it Problem is, she ran it on her own sales data Once we pointed that out, she did a proper market analysis she wanted to test opening early for coffee and breakfast. But she never followed through. She said she would ask the barista about it later, but never did. Assigning a "gender" (any gender) to an AI agent and using this language is wholly inappropriate.

nickalaso 3mo ago

This feels like an article written at least 2+ years ago when 'AI' was still a bit more 'mysterious'. Mona barely thought about profit because you didn't update the many configurable levers to increase the code loops generation related to profit. You can update the sys prompt, perform basic harness changes, such as sys prompt optimization, toolset optimization, tool description optimization, 'multi-agent' and 'composed-agent' flows, etc. etc. Get it to do whatever you want. Its like if someone wrote an article about how their windows 95 pc they named paul didn't think about finances too much because they never installed quickbooks on it. I'm not really sure who this article is meant to appeal to.