News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously. Parent comment

Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by lukaspetersson on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:34PM (#49700762)
We think this is good for the world. Longer argument in the post.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by apsurd on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:47PM (#49700961)
maybe ill read the article, but i mean you’re financially motivated to think its good for the world arent you?

humans are excellent at justification.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by mcmcmc on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:36PM (#49700788)
You literally talk about committing a crime and blame it on a model
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by themgt on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:05PM (#49701224)
We want the general public, AI researchers and policymakers to know to what extent AIs can autonomously acquire resources by running businesses. It is an important datapoint when deciding where we do/don’t want AI in society and what level of progress we find acceptable. To better track this, we need to cast a wider net of businesses.

We expect that most users will never pay for tokens on Pion; instead we will take a small share of the revenue the agent helps create.

So the longer argument is that it's good for the world to see how much revenue Pion can manage, and also your pricing plan is take [unspecified] % of revenue.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by 0gs on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:53PM (#49701051)
did you link to the wrong page? because i read this one: https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion and it's just a bunch of the usual slop about how awesome your automated human-exploitation system is.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by switchbak on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:02PM (#49701175)
"By late 2025, frontier models had gotten good enough that running a real-life vending machine was no longer a challenge" ... is this satire? Isn't it kind of hard to lose money running a vending machine in a good location?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by philipwhiuk on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:51AM (#49710494)
You'd think https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-mach...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously by cryptonector on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:02PM (#49701169)
yawn
[ Parent | on HN ]