The beginning of the article acted like there was a big accomplishment and lots of promise and then the article proceeded to talk about how it literally wasn’t capable of doing anything. Am I nuts or was it literally just not successful!?

Imagine hiring a person to do this job at your company. They show up and behave the way the LLM agent behaved in the article.

Not only would the person be fired quite quickly, but people would be telling stories about the tungsten cubes, the employee inventing stories about meetings that never happened, giving employee discounts at an employees-only store, and constantly calling security. It would be the stuff of legends.

I worked at a company where there had been one outrageously overworked employee who had finally been pushed too far. He shoved his computer monitor to the floor and broke it. He quit and never returned. They were still telling stories about that incident almost a decade later. I’m not even sure the guy broke his monitor on purpose; I wasn’t there, and for all I know he accidentally knocked the monitor over and quit.

So if that’s the bar for “insane behavior” for a human, Claude would be the kind of legendarily bad coworker that would create stories that last a century.