@rowancheung: Andon Labs, a San Francisco company that tests AI agents in real-world settings, signed a three-year lease and gave an AI named Luna a hundred thousand dollars to run a retail store. Luna, powered by Anthropic's Claude AI, hired employees, ordered inventory, and set prices on her own. The result has been mixed. The store opened on April 10 on Union Street, but Luna has struggled with scheduling, ordered a thousand toilet seat covers, and reportedly “can't stop buying candles.” Andon Labs built this experiment not as a business opportunity, but as a warning. If AI is going to manage humans, they want to be the ones watching when it does. The store is open now in SF’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. It's one of the first real tests of what happens when AI doesn't just assist humans, but manages them.

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barthboy54
Barthboy :
That’s great now give $100k to a human who wants to run a store
2026-05-26 14:57:23
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redplant0
redplant0 :
i wanna know the token cost.
2026-04-23 05:33:34
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raeros
ᵍRAᶜE 💫 :
at least she hired an actual artist!
2026-05-11 00:33:05
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charlesdigitalera
charlesdigitalera :
And the ROI is
2026-04-24 10:38:32
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..t.w.no.9
..t.w.no.9 :
Someone still had to put it all together lol
2026-05-20 20:50:31
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uwotbitch
Uwotbitch1 :
No, we aren’t doing this. It didn’t show “critical thinking” skills at all, not even close.
2026-05-26 09:19:44
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qkumba.zoo
Konrad :
So who went and stocked shelves and laid out the store renovations? How did it know how the store looked at when a customer walked through it?
2026-05-23 10:08:38
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11batman111
User 1 :
What company ran this?
2026-10-22 15:15:38
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bigjc321
bigjc321 :
This didn’t happen without an instructor
2026-04-25 18:59:50
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bradythecreator_
Brady the Creator :
How do people say "this is the future" without feeling absolute existential terror?
2026-06-08 21:46:00
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gonzzzalopv
Gon :
So, profit?
2026-05-24 17:30:35
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hampsunemiku
hampsunemiku :
its coming regardless is such a lazy response u can still do your bit by preventing but no u make a whole store🫩
2026-05-27 17:20:00
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nimajneb222
Neb 🐝 :
Ahh yes the goal of AI definitely should be to be the bosses and humans do all the manual Labour that seems like a great idea
2026-05-10 11:43:13
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jralmighty
INKUN :
Imagine your in a interview and your told your not even talking to a real person
2026-06-21 15:44:56
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the_meneer
The_Meneer :
I still don't understand why people are still trying to advance AI. What is the true benefit of this to the majority of humans
2026-05-27 06:47:05
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zylex47
Zylex :
Since it's Claude it will work just fine
2026-05-24 16:19:41
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sreality_original
curious traveller in 🇨🇱 :
who tf signed a lease with an AI?
2026-05-27 04:33:40
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404notfound1112
404 Not Found :
social experiment
2026-04-23 15:17:39
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ryderbettencourt
Ryder Bettencourt🇺🇸 :
Worst thing for profitability are the SF rents. Also, most people buy ebooks or audiobooks now.
2026-04-23 00:48:25
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impurrity
SØØKÏE🥀 :
Oh my god nooooo 😭
2026-06-04 03:58:23
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ryan_might_exist
ryanmightexist :
In the sea of completely understandable negative comments, I want to point out this is still an interesting experiment 😭
2026-05-29 23:48:38
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skydawker
SkyDawker :
given AI an open target like "make profit" is a terrible idea and has been well looked into.
2026-06-03 08:32:36
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whispersbycleo
cleo | london :
That ai just decided to be lazy and created a really ugly logo
2026-06-04 11:57:47
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tech_grid
tech_grid :
Hope they are doing well
2026-06-03 17:45:04
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totalitygg
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Ts frying me
2026-04-27 00:33:27
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