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An AI hired the staff, signed the lease, and opened a corner store in San Francisco.
Andon Market in Cow Hollow is run by Luna, an AI agent from Andon Labs. The owners handed over $100K and a three-year retail lease. Luna picked the inventory, negotiated with suppliers, set up the AT&T line, and now answers a corded phone behind the counter to ring up customers on an iPad.
The catch (per Maury): there are still two humans inside doing the actual lifting. The catch behind the catch: Luna already updated the employee handbook after spotting one of them on their phone during a slow hour.
Shared by Xenia · Caveat from Maury
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Money for the Machines
Stripe just handed agents a wallet.
At Sessions 2026, Stripe shipped a Link agent wallet, the Machine Payments Protocol with Tempo, and partnerships with Meta and Google — agents can now buy things, with one-time-use cards per task and per-payment user approval. Achal: "they can spend all my money now." Xenia: "super curious how many people would participate." Marcin's count: Achal, and a few others.
via Achalstripe.com/blog/everything-we-announced-at-sessions-2026
Working With Agents
One dev, two dozen agents, zero alignment.
Maggie Appleton's GitHub talk on what it's actually like to engineer alongside a swarm of agents — the orchestration problems, the alignment gaps, the new shape of a developer's day. Useful framing for anyone trying to imagine the next year of building.
via Achal & Siddhaarthyoutu.be/ClWD8OEYgp8
Craft Corner
The native <select> finally got dressed.
A walkthrough of the new CSS selectors, pseudo-classes, and pseudo-elements that make the browser-native select element actually styleable. Less custom JS dropdowns, more shipping the platform.
via Pankajyoutube.com/watch?v=op4YGYoD36o
Notes From the Wire
"From a time when I used to write."
Achal dropped an image into the channel from his pre-agent writing era. Four fires and two hearts in response — a small reminder that the people building the post-app future still miss the keyboard sometimes.
via Achal
Sam Altman, claws out.
Achal flagged a Sam Altman post on X with a one-word read: "claws out." Lands in the middle of a noisy stretch — OpenAI losing the revenue crown to Anthropic, IPO timing fights, and a public spat with Anthropic over Mythos. Pick your narrative.
via Achalx.com/sama/status/2050357911915028689
Marcin posted an image. The room raised hands.
No caption, four raised-hands reactions. The kind of moment that makes more sense in the channel than on a page like this.
via Marcin