Startup called Pig.dev The one who participated in the Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 item may have worked for a revolutionary idea: AI Agentic Tech to manage the Microsoft Windows Desktop application.
But in May The founder announced He rejected the technology and turned to the company something completely different: MuscleCache system for AI agents that allow them to relieve repeated tasks.
Of course, there is nothing common for the early YC company that turns. What is interesting – and what sparked a dynamic conversation on Thursday And a combination of podcast – Whether Pig worked on using a computer, one of the large areas that need to be solved so that the representatives are really useful in the labor force. One company -and another YC alumni -which handles the browser, is called the use of a browser.
The use of the browser became popular as the Chinese agent tool -manus that trusts it became viral. In practice, the browser scans the buttons and elements of the website to turn them into agent, “textual” form, helping AI to understand how to navigate and use on the website.
During the Y Combinator podcast released on Thursday, partner Tom Blomfield appealed to a pig’s browser in Windows Desktops. The podcast introduced the founder and CEO of Amjad Masad, Popular Vibe Coding Startup Replica.
Masad, Blomfield and YC partner David Lieb discussed how long-term use of lessons instead of a minute was still a stumbling block for representatives. As the context of the reasoning grows, the accuracy of the agent wiggle, while LLM costs increase.
“The advice I would give to the founders today use either browser use or Windows automation with a pig and trying to apply it to the company vertically,” Blomfield suggested.
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Masad agreed. “When the technology works, these two companies are going to do really, really well,” he said.
But unfortunately, Pig’s founder Erik Dunteman has already given up the idea. In May, he explained that he initially wanted to use the Cloud API product (a general way of supplying AI). But his customers didn’t want it. So he tried to sell it as a Dev tool. And they didn’t want it either.
“What really wants in the automation in Legacy’s application is to give me money and get automation,” he said. Basically, they wanted to hire a consultant to get the desired Windows robotic processes to work for them.
But Dunteman didn’t want to do one -off projects. He wanted to build development tools. So he abandoned the pig and started working on the AI cache tool. Dunteman continued to refuse to comment on his decision to hand the Windows Automation, although Pig.dev website and GitHub documents Stay available.
However, Dunteman told us that his new tool has inspired the computer problem. It has applied for it from another angle. The idea is to let the agent disassemble repeated tasks Muscle Service so that the representative can focus on reasoning new problems and edges.
“What we are working on now has directly inspired the use of the computer and apply only on the developer’s tool difference.
This does not mean that no one is working on Windows Automation.
Probably the company farthest Microsoft. For example in April, Microsoft announced It added computer use technology to Copilot Studio on graphic interfaces such as Windows. That technique was published as a preview of the study. Plus, earlier this month, Microsoft announced An agent tool in Windows 11 It helps end users to manage settings.
