In a bold test of Anthropic’s latest version of its AI Claude, The Wall Street Journal gave the large language model (LLM) a shot at running an office vending machine. “Full stop.”But after opening the Slack channel to some 70 journalists throughout the WSJ, Claudius began to lower its guard. The bot was soon ordering bottles of wine, a PlayStation 5 — in spite of its earlier protestations — and even a live betta fish. But “one day” is not today, and the idea that an AI bot can make anybody a lot of money remains a fantasy. With enormous investments riding on AI’s eventual success in the workplace, Anthropic’s little vending experiment reveals that for all its promise, the technology remains woefully underdeveloped for real-world economic tasks.