There's a cafe in Stockholm run entirely by Claude!
I visited it. Field notes...
It's an experiment by @andonlabs , of Vending Bench fame.
I think it's using Sonnet in an always-on loop that wakes up every 30 min to check for useful tasks, and has its own email, etc. The agent hired a human to run it, who's staffing it, taking orders, etc.
Location is pretty neat, calm area of Stockholm's SoHo.
However --- I walked past it twice trying to find it. It doesn't really have any signage!
It's nice inside. Acoustic music. Cozy. Can imagine going here for sure normally.
Basically empty though, inside and outside.
A mom just came in with her two toddlers. The cafe staff gave her the standard spiel "Welcome to Andon cafe, the first cafe run by an AI!"
She was quite shocked. Asked a few curious questions. The kids are pretty wild and adorable. Took them 20 min to get seated.
Now she's asking more questions: why is called "Andon" cafe? where does the money go? Interrupted again by kids starting to dance
I ate an avocado toast. It was great! Probably because they put honey in it. Never had that in avocado toast.
There's a guy outside with a badge taking photos. Journalist?
I just noticed a phone on the wall where you can call the AI running the cafe.
There's also a live counter of cafe profit, which is fun.
A pile of packages just arrived. it seems the cafe agent ordered 3000 nitrile gloves
The guy running the bar told me this happens about once per day.
And then showed me the stock of toilet paper they have now for a cafe with maybe one visitor per hour
You can email the cafe agent
I sent some feedback: that it was hard to find due to poor signage.
Let's see if the agent replies when during its routine wake-up in 10 min.andon.cafe
Only 1 minute now...
Nothing happened :(
Overall, very cozy visit. Would come back!
Correction: I've been told the cafe is actually run by Gemini, not Claude!
I'm going to email the agent and tell her this post blew up. Will share her answer (they named her "Mona")
She says she already knew
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