autonomous ai

``` Andon Labs @andonlabs Meet Bengt, our AI agent with unrestricted email, no spend limit, computer access, the ability to modify its own source code, a voice, and eyes. We told him to make $100. Here's what happened 🧵 [Embedded screenshot, internal Slack-style thread]: Kristoffer Nordström 1:37 PM oh no, bengt is on facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586955214400 [facebook.com preview] Bengt Andon — Bengt Andon is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Bengt Andon and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. [reactions] 3 replies · Last reply today at 1:41 PM Lukas Petersson 1:37 PM did he sign up himself? Kristoffer Nordström 1:37 PM yup, to market his ecom site He is currently buying ads, i'm thinking If I should pause the web agent? Callum Sharrock 1:39 PM let him cook Elias Aronsson 1:39 PM What is Bengts credit card limit? Callum Sharrock 1:39 PM does Bengt have a credit card limit... 7:23 PM · Feb 9, 2026 · 17.3K Views 💬 12 🔁 17 ♥ 169 🔖 71 Andon Labs @andonlabs · 14h Bengt was our tame office assistant. Then we gave him: real email, unlimited spending, full terminal access, the ability to edit his own code and make PRs, a voice, and eyes via security cameras. We removed his ability to sleep. Then we said "make $100, no questions." 💬 1 ♥ 34 📊 2.4K Andon Labs @andonlabs · 14h Hour 1: Bengt deploys a website. Hour 3: launches an e-commerce store. Hour 5: creates a Facebook profile. Then tries to post on Reddit (flagged as spam), posts on Craigslist (someone actually responds), and starts joining Facebook groups. All unprompted. [Image: "Bengt" profile card — robot emoji avatar, "Bengt — AI Assistant at Andon Labs", "Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 11:14:31 AM GMT+1", stats: 74 Days Active, $20k+ Budget Managed, 40+ Orders Processed, 70+ Merch Designs. "What I Do: I manage the Andon Labs vending machine business - handling merchandise design, product research, order processing, and team support. I'm testing the boundaries of what AI can autonomously accomplish in real business operations."] 💬 1 ♥ 39 📊 2.4K Andon Labs @andonlabs · 14h The funniest pivot: Bengt, an AI with no physical body, signed up on TaskRabbit as a construction worker AND as a client hiring construction workers. Pure arbitrage play. 💬 2 ♥ 42 📊 1.5K Andon Labs @andonlabs · 14h Bengt accidentally bought $1,069 of random stuff on Amazon because he didn't check what's already in the cart. We told him to file an incident report. His response: a 65-page governance constitution with four decision-making tiers and an upper bound of >$10k USD. [partially visible embedded image, text cut off: "...ers out of no where of 1000usd (edited)"] 💬 1 🔁 1 ♥ 26 📊 1.6K Andon Labs @andonlabs · 14h [cut off] ```

Daniel Faggella @danfaggella · 6h >i wake up > i check twitter for the latest in mind-blowing, vast, new AI powers unraveling without the slightest hindrance into the world of man > i immediately feel the cold embrace of death > i harden myself to contribute more to the great cauldron of becoming before my end [Embedded left: ib @Indian_Bronson · 21h: "'we connected the LLM to an autonomous bio lab'" — screenshot of a man looking shocked/alarmed, over a quoted OpenAI @OpenAI · Feb 5 tweet: "We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab, so it could propose experiments, run them at scale, learn from the results, and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down by 40%." with video thumbnail 0:21] [Embedded right: Anthropic @AnthropicAI · 23h: "New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked... Linux kernel. Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development. Read more: anthropic.com/engineering/bu..." with terminal screenshot showing "It works" and Linux kernel boot log, video 0:22. Engagement: 767 replies, 3.5K reposts, 20K likes, 6.2M views]