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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

Anthropic · 13 min read

A post on anthropic.com is cited by 37 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 9 October 2026).

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37blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
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All time3740
Last 90 days33
Last 30 days11
Last 7 days00
Figures for this page
First cited27 Jun 2025
Latest citation13 Sept 2026
Anchor phrases5
External links5
Words captured2,808
New citing blogs a weeksince Jun 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Jun 2025: 68 weeks, peak 4 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 4

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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 37 blogs across 3 subjects: technology 29, business and economics 1, society and politics 1, unclassified 6.

How it is described

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • project vend7 blogs
  • loses track of what it's supposed to be doing2 blogs
  • recently participated in a project1 blog
  • the company anthropic reported1 blog
  • also said that it could deliver products in person at one point1 blog

Cited by 37 blogs in 40 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
ralphmao.github.io1 post
Beyond AI Taking Jobs: When Economy Needs No Human Consumer

linked as “Project Vend”

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20 Jul 2025
Home - Hi there 👋🏻 I am Rico. A programmer, traveler, photographer...1 post
Project Vend, Doppl and the Path to Medical Super Intelligence

linked as “Project Vend by Anthropic”

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13 Jul 2025
Graham Cluley1 post
The AI Fix #58: An AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27

linked as “Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop?”

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8 Jul 2025
elroy.bot1 post
Add Autonomy Last

linked as “loses track of what it's supposed to be doing”

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7 Jul 2025
tombedor.dev1 post
Add Autonomy Last

linked as “loses track of what it's supposed to be doing”

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7 Jul 2025
webcurios1 post
Webcurios 04/07/25

linked as “What Happens When An AI Runs A Shop?”

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4 Jul 2025
The Zvi1 post
AI #123: Moratorium Moratorium

linked as “Can Claude Sonnet 3.7 run a profitable real life vending machine”

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3 Jul 2025
Modal1 post
How we used evals and inference-time compute scaling to generate beautiful QR codes that actually work

linked as “Claude Vend”

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2 Jul 2025
howtotrainyourrobot.com1 post
Can Claude start a business? According to Anthropic, probably not.

linked as “relate the story”

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1 Jul 2025
garymarcus.substack.com1 post
Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world

linked as “Project Vend, in which Claude tried to run a small shop”

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28 Jun 2025
daveduarte.net1 post
Case Study: Can an AI Run a Store Without Losing Its Marbles?

linked as “Project Vend: Can Claude Run a Small Shop”

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28 Jun 2025
oscarmoxon.com2 posts
Build Your Exoskeleton

linked as “Project Vend”

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27 Jun 2025
1 other post
Build Your Exoskeleton

linked as “Project Vend”

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27 Jun 2025

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