A startup called PIG.DEV This participated in the lot of Y Combinator Winter 2025, worked on a potential revolutionary idea: AI Agent Tech to control a Microsoft Windows desk.
But in May, the The founder announced He abandoned technology and rotated his business to something completely different: Muscle mememeA cache system for AI agents which allows them to unload reproducible tasks.
A YC company at the start of the pivoting stage is not out of the ordinary, of course. What is interesting – and what sparked a dynamic conversation Thursday Y combinator podcast – is that PIG worked on the use of the computer, one of the large areas that must be resolved so that the agents are really useful in the labor market. Another company – and another former YC – which attacks that of the browser is called the use of the browser.
The use of the browser has increased in popularity when the Chinese agent tool manus has become viral. The use of the browser essentially scans the buttons and the elements of a website to transform them into a more digestible format “text -shaped” for agents, helping AI to understand how to navigate and use the website.
During the Podcast Y Combinator, published Thursday, the partner Tom Blomfield compared Pig as the browser uses for Windows Desktops. The podcast presented Amjad Massad, the founder and CEO of Popular Ambient coding startup folds.
Massad, Blomfield and YC David Lieb’s partner discussed the consumption of long -term hours, rather than minutes, was always a stumbling block for agents. As the reasoning window increases, the accuracy of an agent flickers while LLM costs increase.
“The advice I would give to the founders today take a use of the browser or the automation of Windows with the pork and try to apply it in the company, in a vertical industry,” suggested Blomfield.
Massad agreed: “As technology works, these two companies are going to do very well,” he said.
But alas, the founder of Pig, Erik Duntman, has already abandoned the idea. In his article in May, he explained that he wanted to manage an API Cloud product (a common way of providing AI technology). But its customers did not want this. So he tried to sell it as a development tool. And they didn’t want to.
“What users of the automation space for inherited applications really want is to recover money and receive automation,” he said. Essentially, they wanted to hire a consultant for the desired Windows robotic automation to work for them.
But Duntman did not want to do unique projects. He wanted to create development tools. He therefore abandoned the pig and started working on an AI cache tool. DUNTEMAN refused more comments on his decision to abandon the automation of Windows, although the PIG.DEV website And GitHub documents Stay available.
