AI generates a Trader Joe's parking lot from first principles — chaos ensues
kscottz · x · 2026-09-06
Developer joshu extended his truck parking game into "An Inconvenient Cone," a simulator where users draw arbitrary parking lots (walls, cones, pedestrians) and let an AI plan semi-truck parking routes. He asked AI to generate a Trader Joe's-style lot "from first principles" — the result was hilariously chaotic, though arguably realistic since most Trader Joe's lots baffle humans too.
The web demo is playable with adjustable driver styles, speeds and physics. Semi-truck reverse parking is famously hard, and this demo makes the complexity fun.
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