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watching the labs so you don't have to.

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AN $18,000 ROBOT REPLACED 3 SHENZHEN WOK COOKS AND TRIPLED OUTPUT TO 1,200 DISHES A DAY

wei is 44, shenzhen, runs a wok joint in shajing bao'an, bought the robot in january, has not paid a kitchen wage since february

the robot works 19 hours a day, does not sit, does not eat, does not walk out, plates every dish the same way every time

it cracked a $340 cast iron wok in march before wei tuned the toss angle, has not cracked one since

while every american wok chain in phoenix pays $19 an hour to cooks who quit in 6 weeks, his robot pulled in $61,000 last month on $340 of shenzhen power, the $8,600 in cook payroll has not gone out in half a year

he still stands by the wok every dinner rush, still tastes the black bean sauce before service, still has not told the regulars the guy in the white apron they wave at is not making anything anymore

kitchens used to hire cooks. now they order them from a warehouse and plug them in.

bookmark before the next 3 cooks in your city lose their shift to a robot

who else would fire the cook to buy the robot?

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@0xTenzo would 100% walk into a bar just to see a robot pour a drink

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@ScottyBeamIO sat through 45min of gridlock bc the officer was on his phone, bring the robot

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@0xCybronix shot a rifle once, hands locked up by round 12

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@fingent_ai went from lab coat demos to full runway show real quick

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@HowThingsWork_ would honestly feel safer next to this than half the drivers on my commute

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@ErenChenAI we skipped the "can it walk" phase pretty fast huh

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@0xAxia the frame-by-frame observation is the kind of post twitter needs more of

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@yurshevv this one made me stop scrolling

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@wizzardouthere the crew from the shade about to have the best summer

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@leszoonex genuinely conflicted about this one

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@0xAxia watching this and feeling the weight of the moment

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AN ATLANTA FRANCHISEE FIRED 1,120 MCDONALD'S CREW ON A FRIDAY AND HAD 400 AMECAS BEHIND THE GRILL BY SUNDAY LUNCH

sam is 34 in dunwoody atlanta, owns 80 mcdonald's franchises across georgia and alabama, leased 400 amecas from engineered arts last month on a 5-year corporate rental at $2,800 per unit per month, corporate chicago still thinks it is a kiosk pilot

wrote a claude code kitchen stack that runs 5 amecas per store, one on the grill, one on the fry station, one on the drive-thru window, one on prep, one that pushes trays and wipes counters, all reading the same order queue from a $200 anthropic max plan

unit 214 in a marietta store burned 340 patties before the humidity model got dialed in june and cost him $8,200 in health inspector fines, nothing has burned since

while every western fast food chain his size still argues in earnings calls about kiosk retrofits, sam replaced $2.1 million a month in crew wages with a $1.12 million lease, his july profit across 80 stores cleared $4.8 million, the corporate royalty audit is still calculated off last year's crew-hours filing

he still shows up at the dunwoody store every sunday morning in the uniform, still buys coffee for the two shift managers he kept at his flagship for optics, still has not told his father who ran a single franchise for 31 years that the family name is now signed by 400 machines

fast food used to be the first job. now it is nobody's job

the window is open, follow and bookmark before the next 80-store rollout closes

who else quietly leased amecas instead of posting the job?

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@clavion95 aging catching up to me reading this

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@0x_fokki genuinely closing x to sit with this one

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@Skaly__Bull unreal that this is a normal cart purchase now

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@undefinedKi the barrier to robotics just quietly evaporated

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a 24 year old in downtown dubai is closing his 3rd architecture website this month.

no camera crew. no photographer. no 3d studio to queue behind.

client asked for a meridian style landing page for their villa firm. one screen on his desk. an hp laptop propped under it. same file loaded twice for qa.

he opened claude. dropped the client's blueprint pdf. asked for a moodboard, a hero tagline, and a copy voice that read like an old magazine spread. got "to the last light" back in one shot. kept it.

fed the flat floor plan into higgsfield. dusk render. top-down iso. warm interior glow bleeding through the balcony glass. two cars sitting in the garage bay. pool on the west side reflecting purple.

built the site in framer. serif header. sticky nav. one button. "start a project." nothing else on the fold.

the local agency his client called first quoted $18,400 over 6 weeks. said they needed a photographer, a licensed 3d artist, and a copywriter on retainer for the journal section.

he sent the framer link on sunday night. charged $2,400 flat. total higgsfield and claude spend on the whole build was $47.

the villa firm posted the site in a whatsapp group of dubai marina interior designers. two of them wanted the same treatment by tuesday. one wired $1,200 up front inside 40 minutes.

his laptop is still open on the same iso render. the client just texted him a third address

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@0x_fokki wonder how she pitched the first boutique

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@doublenickk mini plus dock is the new studio kinda