Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted

Called a startup Pig.dev Which participated in the winter 2025 batch of Wi -Combinator was a potential revolutionary idea: AI Agent Tech was working to control a Microsoft Windows desktop.

However in May, The founder announced He is leaving the technology and making his company important in something completely different: Muscle memeAI is a cache system for agents that allows them to offer repeated tasks.

In the early stages, the pivoting of the WAC company is certainly nothing beyond the general. What is interesting – and on Thursday a dynamic conversation has begun And the combinator podcast – What a pig computer was working, for agents, employees are one of a large field that needs to be solved to be truly effective. Another company – and another is the WAC ex – is dealing with the browser used for browser.

When the Chinese Agent Tool Manus, which depends on it, the browser increases for popularity, Has been viralThe The browser is more digestable for agents, scanning the buttons and components of a website to turn into a “text-national” format, helps understand how to navigate AI and use the website.

During the Wi -Combinator Podcast, published on Thursday, the partner Tom compared the browser for the Windows Desktop to Pigfield Pig. Amjad Massad featured its founder and chief executive officer in Podcast vibe-coding startup responseThe

Massad, Bloomfield and YC partner David Lib was discussing that a few hours instead of a few minutes, the use of computers is still stumbling for agents. As the context window increases for the logic, the accuracy of an agent increases when the cost of LLM increases.

Blumfield suggested, “The advice that I will give today is the browser or Windows automation is taking with pigs and it is trying to apply it to an enterprise,” Blumfield suggested.

Massad agreed, “The moment the technology works, the two companies are going to do really well,” he said.

Alas, Pig founder Eric Dutman has already left the idea. In his post in May, he explained that he first would like to run the cloud API product (a common way to supply AI Tech). However, his customers did not want it. So he tried to sell it as a god tool. And they didn’t even want it.

“The users of the Legacy App Automation Space are actually what you really want is to pay me and take an automation,” he said. Basically, they wanted to appoint a consultant to work for their favorite Windows Robotic Process Automation for them.

However, Dutman did not want to do one-off projects. He wanted to create development equipment. So he left the pig and started working on an AI catching equipment. Dutman has rejected further comments about the decision to excavate Windows Automation, though it is Pig.dev website And Githab document Stay available.

However, Dutman informed us that his new equipment was inspired by computer use problems. It is moving away from another angle. The idea is to allow agents to repeatedly offload tasks Muscle meme Services, so the agent may concentrate on the logic of new problems and on the edge.

He told TechCrunch, “What we are doing now is directly inspired to use computer in the direct developer tooling layer. I’m very optimistic as’ The Last Mile for Computer Use,”

It goes without saying that no one is working on Windows Automation.

Probably the most away with it is the company Microsoft itself. For example, in April Microsoft has announced It has added computer usage technology to the Kapilt Studio for a graphical user interface like Windows. That technology was published in research. Plus, earlier this month, Microsoft announced An agent tool on Windows 11 It helps to handle the settings of last users.