Startup called Pig.dev This participated in Winter 2025 Batch Y Combinator, worked on a potentially revolutionary idea: AI Agentic Tech to manage the Microsoft Windows computer.
But in May The founder announced He abandoned technology and turned his company to something completely different: Muscle memeCoverage system for AI agents, which allows them to unload repetitive tasks.
Of course, at an early stage of YC, after all it is common. What is interesting – and which caused a dynamic conversation on Thursday I Podcast Combinator – It consists in the indisputable fact that the pig has worked on using a computer, one of the large areas that needs to be solved so that the agents are really useful in the working force. Another company – and one other YC Alun – applies to the browser, is called the use of a browser.
The use of a browser increased to popularity when the Chinese agency tool Manus, which consisted of it, became viral. The browser principally uses scanning buttons and elements of the website to rework them into a more digestible, “text similar to the text” format for agents, helping AI understand how navigate and use the site.
During the Y Combinator podcast, released on Thursday, partner Tom Blomfield compared the pig for use in the browser for computer computers. Amjad Masad, founder and general director of the popular replication of startups encoding coding code, performed in Podcastie.
Masad, Blomfield and Partner YC David Lieb talked about how long hours of hours, not a minute, was still an obstacle to agents. As the context of reasoning increases, the agent’s accuracy decreases, and LLM costs increase.
“The advice that I would give today to the founders receive the use of a browser or automation of Windows with PIG and tries to apply it to the company, to the vertical industry,” Blomfield suggested.
TechCrunch event
San Francisco
|.
October 27-29 2025
Masad agreed. “When the technology works, these two companies will be really good,” he said.
But unfortunately, the founding father of Pig, Erik Duseman, has already given up this concept. In his post in May he explained that he initially desired to launch the Cloud API product (a common approach to delivering AI Tech). But his clients didn’t want it. So he tried to sell it as a Dev tool. And they didn’t want it either.
“What users in the Automation App Automation really want to transfer money and receive automation,” he said. They principally desired to hire a consultant to make their desired automatic processes in Windows.
But Duseman didn’t need to do one -off projects. He desired to build programming tools. So he abandoned the pig and began working on the artificial intelligence buffering tool. Duseman refused to comment on his decision to desert Windows automation, although Pig.dev website AND GitHub documents remain available.
However, Duseman told us that his recent tool was inspired by the problem of using a computer. It moves away from it at a different angle. The idea is to enable the agent to alleviate repeated tasks to Muscle meme A service for an agent to focus on the reasoning of recent problems and edge cases.
“What we are working on now is directly inspired and used to use the computer, only in the layer of programmer tools. I remain very optimistic for computer use as” the last mile “, said Techcrunch.
This does not mean that no one is working on Windows automation.
Microsoft is probably the furthest since this. For example in April Microsoft announced He added computer technology to Copilot Studio to user graphic interfaces equivalent to Windows. This technology was issued as a research preview. Plus, at the starting of this month, Microsoft announced Agency tool in Windows 11 This helps end users to administer the settings.