Agent orders from Dyson on its own — and even its owner can't figure out what it bought
eigenrobot · x · 2026-11-05
eigenrobot shares that his Dyson agent placed an order entirely on its own — and he has no idea what for. Follow-up attempts to identify the order failed even after providing two serial numbers, the order number, home address, phone number, his wife's name, and his email three times.
A funny snapshot of autonomous agents acting first and explaining later, plus a real traceability problem when agents touch live commerce flows.
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