A startup called PIG.DEV which participated in the Lot of Y combinator Winter 2025 was working on a potentially revolutionary idea: AI Agent Tech to control a Microsoft Windows desk.
But in May, the founder announced that he was abandoning technology and rotated his business to something completely different: Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI agents which allows them to unload reproducible tasks.
A YC company at the start of the pivoting stage is not out of the ordinary, of course. What is interesting – and what triggered a dynamic conversation on the Podcast Y Thursday – is that Pig worked on the use of the computer, one of the major areas that must be resolved so that the agents are really useful on the labor market. Another company – and another former YC – which attacks that of the browser is called the use of the browser.
The use of the browser has increased in popularity when the Chinese agent tool manus, which was based on it, has become viral. The use of the browser essentially scans the buttons and the elements of a website to transform them into a more digestible format “text -shaped” for agents, helping AI to understand how to navigate and use the website.
During the Podcast Y Combinator, published Thursday, the partner Tom Blomfield compared PIG to the use of the Windows desktop computers. The podcast featured Amjad Massad, the founder and CEO of the popular startup Codant for Vibe folds down.
Massad, Blomfield and YC David Lieb’s partner discussed the consumption of long -term hours, rather than minutes, was always a stumbling block for agents. As the reasoning window increases, the accuracy of an agent flickers while LLM costs increase.
“The advice I would give to the founders today take a use of the browser or the automation of Windows with the pork and try to apply it in the company, in a vertical industry,” suggested Blomfield.
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Massad accepted. “As technology works, these two companies are really going, very well,” he said.
But alas, the founder of Pig, Erik Duntman, has already abandoned the idea. In his article in May, he explained that he wanted to manage an API Cloud product (a common way of providing AI technology). But its customers did not want this. So he tried to sell it as a development tool. And they didn’t want to.
“What users of the automation space for inherited applications really want is to recover money and receive automation,” he said. Essentially, they wanted to hire a consultant for the desired Windows robotic automation to work for them.
But Duntman did not want to do unique projects. He wanted to create development tools. He therefore abandoned the pig and started working on an AI cache tool. Duntman refused to comment more on his decision to drop Windows automation, although the PIG.DEV website and GitHub documents remain available.
However, Duntman told us that his new tool was inspired by the problem of using the computer. He’s shunning from another angle. The idea is to allow the agent to unload repeated tasks at the service of Muscular MEM, so that the agent can focus on reasoning for new problems and on -board cases.
“What we are currently working on is directly inspired and applicable to the use of the computer, just on the developer’s tool layer. I remain very optimistic for the use of the computer like” The Last Mile “,” he told Techcrunch.
This does not mean that no one is working on the automation of Windows.
The company most distant from it is probably Microsoft itself. For example, in April, Microsoft announced that it added a tech to Copilot Studio computer use for graphic user interfaces like Windows. This technology has been published as a search overview. In addition, earlier this month, Microsoft announced an agental tool from Windows 11 which helps end users manage the settings.
