AI Engineer · July 24, 2026

Vending-Bench: Long-Horizon Agent Evals — Lukas Petersson, Andon Labs

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Why it matters

An hour before this talk, Andon Labs published a blog post laying off Gemini. Gemini had been running their café in Stockholm, a real café that no human operates, and it had lost $6,000, so they handed it to GPT. That café once hired its own staff by posting a job on LinkedIn.

My takeaway: Vending-Bench: Long-Horizon Agent Evals — Lukas Petersson, Andon Labs is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.