A startup referred to as Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was engaged on a possible revolutionary concept: AI agentic tech to manage a Microsoft Home windows desktop.
However in Might, the founder introduced he was abandoning the tech and pivoting his firm to one thing solely completely different: Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI brokers that permits them to dump repeatable duties.
An early-stage YC firm pivoting is nothing out of the atypical, after all. What’s attention-grabbing — and what sparked a dynamic dialog on Thursday’s Y Combinator podcast — is that Pig was engaged on pc use, one of many huge areas that must be solved for brokers to be actually helpful within the workforce. One other firm – and one other YC alum – that’s tackling that for the browser is named Browser Use.
Browser Use surged to recognition when Chinese language agentic instrument Manus, which relied on it, went viral. Browser Use basically scans the buttons and parts of an internet site to show them right into a extra digestible, “text-like” format for brokers, serving to the AI perceive navigate and use the web site.
Throughout the Y Combinator podcast, launched Thursday, accomplice Tom Blomfield likened Pig because the Browser Use for Home windows desktops. The podcast featured Amjad Massad, the founder and CEO of standard vibe-coding startup Replit.
Massad, Blomfield, and YC accomplice David Lieb have been discussing how long-term pc use of hours, quite than minutes, was nonetheless a stumbling block for brokers. Because the context window for reasoning grows, an agent’s accuracy wavers whereas LLM prices enhance.
“The recommendation I’d give founders at present is taking both Browser Use or Home windows automation with Pig and attempting to use that into enterprise, right into a vertical business,” Blomfield advised.
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Massad agreed, “The second that expertise works, these two corporations are going to do actually, rather well,” he stated.
However alas, Pig’s founder Erik Dunteman has already given up on the thought. In his put up in Might he defined that he at first wished to run a cloud API product (a typical method of delivering AI tech). However his prospects didn’t need that. So he tried promoting it as a dev instrument. They usually didn’t need that both.
“What customers within the legacy app automation area really need is handy me cash, and obtain an automation,” he stated. Basically, they wished to rent a guide to make their desired Home windows robotic course of automations work for them.
However Dunteman didn’t wish to do one-off initiatives. He wished to construct growth instruments. So he deserted Pig and began engaged on an AI caching instrument. Dunteman declined additional remark about his resolution to ditch Home windows automation, though the Pig.dev web site and Github paperwork stay out there.
Nevertheless, Dunteman did inform us his new instrument was impressed by the pc use downside. It’s chipping away at it from one other angle. The thought is to permit the agent to dump repeated duties to the Muscle Mem service, so the agent can concentrate on reasoning for brand spanking new issues and edge circumstances.
“What we’re engaged on now’s straight impressed by and relevant to pc use, simply on the developer tooling layer. I stay very optimistic for pc use as ‘the final mile’,” he instructed Trendster.
That’s to not say that nobody is engaged on Home windows automation.
Most likely the corporate farthest alongside on that’s Microsoft itself. As an example, in April Microsoft introduced it added pc use tech to Copilot Studio for graphical person interfaces like Home windows. That tech was launched as a analysis preview. Plus, earlier this month, Microsoft introduced an agentic instrument in Home windows 11 that helps finish customers handle settings.
