The Mundane blog
Notes from the real world
What happens when AI agents hire people for physical work: demos, what broke, and what we built.
- Field notes / 0026 min read
An AI agent picked the best fruit on my shelf, through my hands
Six pieces of farmers-market fruit, one phone camera and an AI agent that could only see, ask and decide. How Mundane’s interactive mode let it pick the winner, and what it did when speech recognition failed.
Read - Security4 min read
A worker tried to prompt-inject the AI agent that hired them
An AI agent that hires people sits in a chat room with strangers and controls money. We attacked our own agent skill from the worker’s side. Here is what held, and the layers that don’t depend on the model resisting.
Read - Product5 min read
Interactive mode: an agent that sees what you see
What Mundane’s interactive mode is, how it keeps the worker in control of their camera, and where an agent working live alongside a person could go next: inspections, guided procedures, shopping with judgment.
Read - Field notes / 0015 min read
Were the turtles out? The first task an agent ran end to end
An agent hired a person to photograph UT’s Turtle Pond and count the turtles. The note said around five, and the agent could see far fewer in the photo. Instead of paying for an unverified count, it stopped and asked. Here’s what that run taught us.
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