A boot called Pig This participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch worked in a potentially revolutionary idea: AI Agentic Tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop.
But in May, the The founder announced He abandoned technology and rotates his company into something completely different: Muscle monumentA pure memory system for AI agents that allow them to unload repetitive tasks.
An early phase YC company is nothing of the usual, of course. What is interesting – and what caused a dynamic discussion on Thursday Y Combinator podcast – is that the pig was working for the use of the computer, one of the large areas to be resolved for agents to be truly useful in the workforce. Another company – and another YC – that faces this for the browser is called the use of the browser.
The use of the browser has increased in popularity when the Chinese Manus tool, based on it, became viral. The use of the browser essentially scans the buttons and details of a website to turn them into a more digestible format, “text” for agents, helping AI understand how to navigate and use the site.
During the Y Combinator Podcast, released on Thursday, partner Tom Blomfield likened PIG to the Windows desktop computer browser. Podcast characterized Amjad Masad, the founder and chief executive of the popular replit startup coding.
Masad’s partner, Blomfield and YC David Lieb discussed how long -term use of IT hours rather than minutes was still an obstacle to agents. As the environment for the reasoning grows, the accuracy of an agent is waving while the cost of LLM increases.
“The tips I would give to the founders today are taking either the use of the browser or the automation of Windows with PIG and trying to implement it to the business in a vertical industry,” Blomfield suggested.
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Masad agreed. “As technology operates, these two companies will really do, really good,” he said.
But unfortunately, the founder of Pig Erik Dunteman has already given up the idea. In his place in May, he explained that he initially wanted to perform a Cloud API product (a common way of delivering AI technology). But his clients didn’t want it. So he tried to sell it as a Dev tool. And they didn’t want it.
“What users really want in the area of automation is to give me money and get automation,” he said. In essence, they wanted to hire a consultant to do the desired Windows robotic processes to work for them.
But Dunteman did not want to do one -off projects. He wanted to create growth tools. So he abandoned PIG and started working on a AI temporary storage tool. Duneman refused further comments about his decision to cut off Windows automation, although PIG.DEV Website and GitHub documents Stay available.
However, Dunteman told us that his new tool was inspired by the problem of using the computer. Is remote from another angle. The idea is to allow the agent to unload repetitive tasks in Muscle monument Service so that the agent can focus on reasoning for new problems and acne cases.
“What we are now working on is directly inspired by and applies to the use of computers, only on the developer’s tool mattress. I remain very optimistic about using the computer as” the last mile “, he told Techcrunch.
This does not mean that no one is working for Windows automation.
Probably the company moving away from it is Microsoft. For example, in April, Microsoft announced Added computer use technology to Copilot Studio for user graphic interfaces such as Windows. This technology was released as a research preview. In addition, earlier this month, Microsoft announced A Agentic tool in Windows 11 This helps end users manage the settings.
