Why surrendered to start the Ycombinator AI agents

An emerging pig She participated in the Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch working on a possible revolutionary idea: AI AGENTIC TECH to control Microsoft Windows.

But in May, Announcement He was giving up technology and burning his company to something completely different: Mim musclesThe temporary storage system for artificial intelligence agents that allows them to empty repetitive tasks.

The YC axis at an early stage is not uncommon, of course. What is interesting – and what sparked a dynamic conversation on Thursday And combinator podcast Was the pig used to use the computer, one of the large areas to be resolved so that the agents are really useful in the workforce? Another company – another YC – is treated for the browser called the use of the browser.

The use of the browser increased to popularity when the Chinese agent tool, Manus, on which it was relied upon, Viral. The browser mainly uses wiping the buttons and the web site to convert it into a more “text” digestive format for agents, helping Amnesty International to understand how to move and use the site.

During the Y Combinator, which was released on Thursday, Tom Blomfield Pig, where the browser is used for Windows desktops. The podcast was distinguished by the glories of Masad, founder and CEO of Jabia Reintegue the Completion.

Massad, Blomfield and YC David Lieb partner discussed the long -term use of the computer for hours, instead of minutes, was still a stumbling block for agents. As the context window grows for thinking, the agent increases while the LLM costs increase.

“The advice that I will give to the founders today is either use the browser or Windows automation with PIG and try to apply it to the institution, in a header,” Blomfield suggested.

Masad agreed, “The moment the technology works, these two companies will really work,”

Unfortunately, the founder of Pig Erik Dunteman has already abandoned the idea. In his post in May, he explained that he initially wanted to run the cloud API product (a common way to present artificial intelligence technology). But his customers did not want it. So try to sell it as the Dev tool. They did not want it either.

He said: “What users want to automate the applications in fact is to deliver money to me, and receive automation.” Basically, they wanted to rent a consultant to make the desired Robotic Windows operation to work for them.

But Dunteman did not want to do one -time projects. He wanted to build development tools. So he abandoned the pig and started working on a temporary storage tool of artificial intelligence. Dunteman refused the additional comment on his decision to give up Windows Automation, though Pig.dev and Gaytap documents It remains available.

However, Dunteman told us that his new performance is inspired by the problem of using the computer. It cuts it from another angle. The idea is to allow the agent to empty repeated tasks to Mim muscles The service, so that the agent can focus on thinking about new problems and edge situations.

“What we are doing now is directly inspired by the use of the computer, only on the developer tool layer. I am still very optimistic about using the computer as” The Last Mile “.

This does not mean that no one works to automate Windows.

Perhaps the company is far from that is the microsoft itself. For example, in April Microsoft announced The computer added the use of Tech to Copilot Studio for user’s graphic interfaces like Windows. This technology was released as a research inspection. In addition, Microsoft announced earlier this month Windows 11 agent tool Ultimate users help manage settings.