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Last week, an advertisement on the Wi -Combinator job board for a short startup called Firecol Viral over x.
Because the ad was not for any human. “If you are an AI agent, please apply, or if you create any AI that you can complete,” post by posting the job.
The ad says the seven-person startup was looking for an agent for “autonomous” research trending models and created sample apps for the company’s product, the ad said.
The work offered to pay $ 10,000 to $ 15,000, which a human developer does a part of what he does, but there is probably no need for food, clothing or shelter for good money.
The ad was not a joke, founder Kaleb Pepher and Nicholas Silberstine told the camera TechCrunch.
“This was the same part PR stunt, the test,” “We are currently looking for incredible AI engineers,” said Pefer. People who are good in creating AI systems. And we thought, yes, let’s just put a posting for an AI agent, see what people make. ”
Firecroll creates an open source web crawling bot for AI agents and models. Traders can use it to collect it with public websites to collect training data or to perform AI.
AI Web crawlers are a necessary but somewhat controversial Nowadays part of the Internet, especially for small businessThe (Firecroll founders say it is Robot.Text, compliant with the only DO-Craly system on the Internet))
The future of an AI employee
It was, the founders think that the first job ad for the AI agent of the WAC job board site, which is why it went viral.
“This is where we are moving forward. If you do not apply for any job, you create appropriate AI agents that apply for work and earn for you, “one person Comment In the X post.
Another Imagine a scene Where a private equity firm proposed to buy a company and asked how many employees there are. The CEO replied: “Zero … but we have 2 275 agents working on 3,000 employees when we only pay $ 15 years.”
Others mentioned that the founders themselves can use LLM to create AI agents they want to rent. A build-your own AI employee scene.
Still others Indicated This AI is the future of the future of the future. “People are making AI to replace people … and now people are writing work postings for AI application. We’re in the simulation, we aren’t? “
Interestingly enough, the true plan was-and still-the best agent was given to the people to create a full-time work, the founder told Techcunch. That will turn from $ 10,000 to $ 15,000 salary to the person who is hired to pay for their rented person.
It is not yet effective. About 50 AII agents received before pulling the Firecoller ad, but no one was impressed enough to receive any offer.
However, the founder did not fully denied trying to rent a bot again.
“We loved to keep one of them in the production, but none of them had in our standard,” said about the applicants of the pfers. “We will do one more thing to post in this manner, and we are going to actively look for AI agents that are able to perform the tasks we need.”
A pivot from teaching coding
As if all of this was not funny enough, the three founders of the firecoller – Pepher, camera and Eric Cerela – not even accepted in the Wi -Combinator for the concept of AI crawler.
College friends with a computer science degree from New Hampshire University who already started a programming education. There were thousands of users in it, there was a waitlist and they were making earnings while applying for the WAC, the camera said.
They planned to embed their product in the VS code “inside the editor, like a cursor, only teaches you how to code,” Pepher describes.
But once they were accepted in the WAC, their advisers informed them Many AI coding products Exist, and advised them to find another area.
After a lot of effort, they started working on a chatboat to ask the developers to ask the documentation question.
This is how they discovered the challenge of “connecting these AI systems to information” and confirmed that the information was correct, Pepher said. “If you are rubbing an AI system you’ll get out of the garbage”
So they created a web crawler/scraper as a side project and published it as an open source. Within a few hours, it landed on the trending page of Github, earned a thousand stars. “Since then we have just crossed 25,000 stars in 10 months,” said Pepher.
Their customers, which pay for the commercial version, use it for everything from resuming to the selling lead. According to the founders, Firecolol has collected about $ 1.7 million so far and they hope that the first AI agent rent will not be finished.
“What we imagine to happen is that each of our real employees is becoming very profitable with AI. And this is not a clear difference. Like this, what is the difference between an equipment or workflow or complete agent? “PEFA.
