Interesting idea and there's clearly something real here, but I am extremely skeptical this played out like the article suggests. The authors are hand-waving some pretty complicated actions... Like how did Mona access supplier pages and place orders? How did she design custom merch? When she held a Google Meet with another agent, what even happened there, how did she connect to Google Meet... does she have the ability to join a persistent session like that with voice?

Interesting experiment but the article feels like it's deliberately withholding those kinds of details to hype the capabilities a little.

To me these all sound pretty plausible?

You have browser extensions that allow AI to control it. There are apps that create a virtual microphone for text to speech. All pretty easy to get going if you allow an AI to control a computer.

Generating designs is also easy. Just use nano banana or something similar.

I'm more curious about the quality of the output. I've seen some ugly stuff. The article also includes one example (the outdoor seating design).

I'm also curious about the reaction of people to AI running the shop. Do some people decide not to deal with it? Do some people abuse it? In the article there seem to be only positive examples of human-AI interactions.