Over lunch in San Francisco, Ramp’s CEO seemed to be enjoying a casual moment until Claude flubbed something and a waitress unexpectedly stepped in.

She switched the AI from Sonnet to Opus, fixing the issue instantly. So impressed, the CEO jokingly offered her a job and a piece of the startup. She shook her head:

“After seeing the code behind this project, I’ll pass on being a shareholder. Thanks, though.”

It’s a charming tale but entirely fictional.

The story was actually a marketing stunt. The CEO staged a photo, shared the anecdote on X, and it went viral, racking up millions of views a