And start backed by combinator Pilot He is back in the search for employees of AI agents. As we report in February, His first attempt did not throw an AI that is worth hiring.
But now three new ones have been placed ads In the YC Work Board only for “AI agents” and has reserved a total budget of $ 1 million for this to happen.
Approximately a week after the new jobs started, he had about 50 applicants, Founder Caleb Peffer tells TechCrunch.
Pilot It offers a web tracking tool that has the data of the websites for LLM. That is, PEFFER admits, a shaded part of the ecosystem of ia where Web tracers that behave badly can enhance websites such as DDOS attacks. But Firewcrawl has gained popularity when trying to bring some railings, he says.
For example, many of its customers are companies that scrape their own data for the internal use of LLM. Some websites want their data to be included in Chatbot’s responses, just as Google links want, he says. Besides, The tool honors the robot.txt configuration and can be configured only to scrape a public website once and share the data with others.
Consequently, an opening of work is for a content creation agent “that never sleeps and is always sent” that will produce autonomously the Publications and seo tutorials of high quality “of high quality” on how to use its product, says the announcement of the startup. Firecrawl wants this to see the commitment metrics and use it to autonomously improve the audience for its content as well.
In other words: the agent must decide what to create, create it, publish it, measure the audience and grow the domain of those comments, autonomously. If you are a limit made to blogate, This could be the work for you. The announced payment is $ 5,000 per month.
The company is also looking for a customer service engineer who has the task of developing the workflow of AI that responds to customer problems in two minutes and can handle tickets alone, knowing when to intensify a human. Previous experience is requested that performs customer service. Payment is also $ 5,000/month.
The third opening is for a Junior developer agent who will have the task of prioritizing Github’s incoming problems, writing documentation and writing code in TypeScript and GO. Once again, the payment also $ 5,000/month.
But here is the trap: Firecrawl also hopes to hire human creators or creators behind these bots, and the $ 1 million budget is to hire agents and humans, although it is not clear how many years it is supposed to cover the budget. The startup could hire full time humans, or as contractors (which could make more sense if they are creating many agents for many companies). Firecrawl is also entertaining offers from other new companies that specialize in the creation of the types of agents that are looking, for example, in customer service, says Peffer.
The truth is that the employee of AI of Firecrawl’s dreams does not exist yet. Maybe he will never do it.
“AI cannot replace humans today,” says Peffer. “The future, what we see, is a world where the next 10 times engineers are armies of agents, AI systems that are building, maintaining and monitoring. What we want to do is work with people who want to be those agents operators.”
Firecrawl is not the only one. The YC Labor Board is full of jobs for agents developers. Will your creations replace them as Silicon Valley is? continuously wishing? That is the real question of a million dollars.