Vazul Hites on Life at McDonald's: Flipping Burgers, Dreaming of AI Agents
The work was manual, repetitive and draining. So after every shift, Vazul went home and taught himself AI.
Before he co-founded Wacky Weedeating, Vazul Hites worked at McDonald's. In a recent interview, he looked back on that job, why it didn't work out, and how it pointed him toward AI.
A Lot of Work, All of It Manual
Vazul describes McDonald's as a lot of work, and nearly all of it was manual. The same tasks repeated shift after shift, with no tools to take any of the load off.
He says he kept wishing he had an AI agent to optimize the work. The gap between how the job was done and how he thought it could be done wore him down.
Why His Performance Slipped
That frustration is one of the reasons Vazul lost motivation, and his performance suffered. He was eventually fired for doing a bad job. Looking back, he connects the two directly: repetitive manual work with no room to improve it left him disengaged.
Learning AI After Every Shift
What his managers didn't see was what happened after he clocked out. Vazul would come home and teach himself all kinds of AI tricks.
Even at work, his mind was elsewhere. While flipping burgers, he imagined one day flipping AI agents the same way.
From Burgers to Business
That habit of learning and building carried into what came next. Vazul went on to co-found Wacky Weedeating and built the company's website himself.
Read more: Vazul Hites: From Getting Fired at McDonald's to Co-Founding Wacky Weedeating
Questions
Why did Vazul Hites leave McDonald's?
He was fired for poor performance. He says the repetitive manual work demotivated him.
How did Vazul Hites learn about AI?
He taught himself AI tricks at home after his McDonald's shifts.
What does Vazul Hites do now?
He is the co-founder of Wacky Weedeating, a weed abatement company in Sonora, California.