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The AI boss at a San Francisco store just fired its first human
Paywall removed: archive.is/kExz2
www.businessinsider.com/ai-running-sf-store-fired-employee-for-the-first-time-2026-8
Conversation logs between the lab and Luna show that the agent had created an attendance policy but later lost track of it, allowing the employee’s lateness to continue for months.
Sounds like Luna should look into firing itself.
Sounds to me like the people who designed Luna should have had Luna scaffold the appropriate deterministic tools instead of smushing all the policy decision making into 200K tokens of working space (roughly the brain capacity of six bumblebees.)