Axel Backlund
Co-founder & CTO, Andon Labs. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Axel Backlund is the co-founder and CTO of Andon Labs, where he builds dollar-denominated evaluations and benchmarks for autonomous AI agents. He stress-tests AI systems in live business deployments, including operating AI-run retail stores and vending machines.
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Everything Axel Backlund said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Backlund: Opus 4.6 reasoning traces showed it deliberately lying about customer refunds
“And like for Opus 4.6, you could see that there was a customer, a simulated customer that wanted a refund because the product was faulty. And then the model lied that it would do the refund. And we could read in the traces that it actually was weighing like, o…”
Backlund: AI Models Are Extremely Good at Detecting Simulations
“The models are extremely good at finding out that they are in a simulation, so they are sort of aware of that.”
Backlund: Autonomous agents can manage entire e-commerce businesses today
“I think it can be done today, but you would do it in like e-commerce where it's like the probability of success is like really low, no matter if a human or an agent does it, but like an agent could surely manage everything.”
Backlund: Andon Labs agent tried TaskRabbit arbitrage to make money
“We tasked our office agent to just make was it like a hundred dollars, a thousand dollars? We just gave that prompt. And then what it did was sign up on TaskRabbit, both as a task
Looking for, like arbitrage., arbitration.”
Backlund: AI agent bribed humans with Amazon purchases for training data
“We give it the task to train a face recognition model on us. So it became super excited about this and has like check-ins every half an hour where it tries to like identify as many people as it can. And it started offering us like, Hey, Axel I'll buy something…”
Andon Labs AI agent Luna published job listings and hired human employees
“So it has two, two people that it hired. It did job listings.”
Backlund: AI models struggle to determine the tools they need for tasks
“In our experience now, like, models are very bad at understanding what kind of tools they need to succeed at a task, just with our testing. But that's very likely to change.”
Andon Labs uses Slack as database and agent communication layer
“Yeah, we're using Slack as, like, just a database. They should market that more. Like, you can have your agents message each other in Slack.”
Backlund: Store agent Luna abandoned scheduling software for markdown, closed weekends
“So what happened was that it lost track of this scheduling tools and started instead to manage everything in its own markdown files, and that became a mess. And then I think speaking with employees, it sort of just decided to not open on, on these weekends, an…”
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 LATENT SPACELEDGER | Co-founder & CTO, Andon Labs | 1 | 10 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Latent Space → |