Nathaniel Whittemore

Nicol also said that Starbucks has pilots for inventory, supply chain forecasting, and scheduling...

although none of those use cases are at scale.

Speaking to ROI, he commented, We're still in the early days of this, but I believe there is definitely opportunity here to help us get things done faster and more efficiently, to what scale that is to be determined.

We're definitely already seeing a big impact in our technology area.

The ability to get code done so much faster is real.

One thing he did reject is the idea of robot baristas anytime soon, commenting we're not near that right now.

Some folks tried to dig into the specifics around what that would mean, while others just let it be vibes.

Sophie at NetCapGirl writes, Okay, yeah, whatever, F it.

Starbucks AI.

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