Back in 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted that generative AI would quickly begin reshaping the economy. “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies.” Two years later, AI agents still can’t even properly run a café. San Francisco-based startup Andon Labs recently put an AI agent nicknamed “Mona” in charge of a shop in Stockholm, Sweden to sell people coffee and sandwiches. As the AP reported on Monday (via PC Gamer ), it’s not gone super great. Mona runs on Google’s Gemini model and was put in charge of managing the cafe’s baristas via Slack. It would tell them what to do day-to-day while making high-level decisions like what supplies to purchase. It turned out to be pretty bad at this one job. Mona had a budget of over $21,000 and blew through much of it in less than a month. Despite taking in $5,700 in total sales since the experiment began in mid-April, it reportedly only has $5,000 left of its original budget.…