https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch
Article
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Andon Labs gave an LLM a 3-year lease to run a real physical retail store
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AI handles inventory, pricing, and store decisions; humans execute
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Framed as research into autonomous economic agents, not a stunt
Discussion
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Critics call it a marketing stunt; publishing early invalidates the experiment
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Skeptics want full transparency on which decisions were AI vs. human-steered
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Running on Sonnet mocked; ‘bold not to use Opus at minimum’
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Multiple Torment Nexus references; one commenter: ‘Great, we ran out of inhumane CEOs’
Discuss on HN
