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Last week, an advertisement from Y Combinator went to start a small operation called FireCrawl Virals on X.
This is because the advertisement was not for a person. “Please apply only if you are the agent of Amnesty International, or if you create Amnesty International, it can fill this task,” reading the job.
The advertisement said that the start of the seven people was looking for an agent for “independently” to search for models and create sample applications to display the company’s product.
The job provided a salary ranging from 10,000 to 15,000 dollars, which is a small part, making it a human developer, but perhaps good money for an entity that does not need food, clothes or shelter.
The advertisement was not a joke.
“The equal parts of public relations were, the experiment,” said PEFFer. We are currently looking for amazing artificial intelligence engineers. Humans who are good at building artificial intelligence systems. And we thought, huh, let’s put a publication there for Amnesty International Client, see what people are building. ”
Firecrawl manufactures an open -based robot for artificial intelligence agents and models. Companies can use them to collect training data or whenever artificial intelligence is forced to interact with public websites to perform.
AI’s web crawls are necessary but somewhat controversial Part of the Internet these days, especially for small companies. (Firecrawl founders say it is compatible with Robot.txt, the only internet system that does not work.)
The future of Amnesty International employee
This was, as the founders believed, the first work of a work of Amnesty International on the YC Board website, which is why he became viral.
“This is where we go. Do not apply for a job, you make the appropriate artificial intelligence agent that applies to the job and earns you, Stuck On x post.
last Imagine a scene Where a special stock company offered to buy a company and asked about the number of employees they have. The CEO replied: “Zero … but we have 275 agents of Amnesty International who do 3000 employees while we pay them only 15 dollars.”
Others have indicated that the founders themselves can be used LLMS already to build an artificial intelligence agent who want to use them. The scenario of the artificial intelligence employee.
Others are still others Indicate Dysopian nature for this future intelligence. “Humans create artificial intelligence to replace humans … and now humans write jobs to be applied to artificial intelligence. We are in simulation, right?”
It is interesting that the real plan was-and it is still-in reality giving a person who built the best full-time job agent. A salary will be offered from 10,000 to 15,000 dollars at the salary offer for the person they rented.
It has not yet succeeded. Firecrawler got about 50 applicants to the artificial intelligence agent before withdrawing the advertisement, but none of them admired enough to get an offer.
But the founders were not completely excluded in an attempt to employ a robot again.
“We would like to put one of this production, but none of them were at the level of our standards,” Bever said of the applicants. “We will publish another job in this way, and we will actively search for artificial intelligence agents who are able to accomplish the tasks we need.”
Axis of teaching coding
As all of this was not funny enough, the three founders of Firecrawler – PEFFER, Camera and Eric Ciala – were not accepted in Y Combinator of the idea of AI Crawler.
The founders, who are university friends with computer science certificates from New Hampshire University, had already had an educational startup in programming. The camera said he had thousands of users, a waiting list, and he was generating revenues when they applied to YC.
They planned to include their product in VS Code “inside the code editor, such as Cursor, only teaching you how to code”, PEFFer description.
But once they were accepted in YC, their advisers told them that Many artificial intelligence coding products It exists, and advise them to find another field.
After many attempts, they started working on Chatbot for developers to ask document questions.
This is how they discovered the challenge of “communicating these artificial intelligence systems with information”, and ensuring that information is accurate, as Peffer said. “If the garbage is given to the artificial intelligence system, it will come out of the garbage.”
So they built a creeping/scraped on the Internet as a side project and launched it as an open source. Within hours, it landed on the GitHub Trending page, and gained 1000 stars. “Since then, we have crossed 25,000 stars in only 10 months,” PEFFer said.
For a commercial version, their customers, who pay a commercial version, use everything from the appellate analysis to find sales threads. Firecrawl raised about $ 1.7 million so far, according to the founders, and they expect that this first AI’s agent will be rented.
“What we imagine is that each of our real employees will become very beneficial with artificial intelligence. This is not a clear discrimination. It is like, what is the difference between the tool, workflow or a full agent?” Peffer said.
