Y Combinator-backed start-up Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI representative staff members.
As we reported back in February, its very first effort didnt yield an AI worth hiring.But its now placed 3 new advertisements on YCs task board for AI agents just and has reserved a $1 million budget total to make it happen.Within about a week after the brand-new job posts went live, it had about 50 candidates, founder Caleb Peffer informs A Technology NewsRoom.Firecrawl provides a web crawling tool that scrapes information from sites for LLMs.
This is, Peffer admits, a shady part of the AI ecosystem where bad acting web spiders can in some cases pound sites like DDoS attacks.
Firewcrawl has gotten appeal by attempting to bring in some guardrails, he says.
Many of its customers are business scraping their own data for internal LLM usage.
Some websites desire their data included in chatbot actions, just like they desire Google links, he says.
Furthermore, the tool honors robot.txt settings and can be set to only scrape a public site as soon as and share the data with others.
Consequently, one job opening is for a content creation representative that never sleeps and constantly ships that will autonomously produce high quality SEO-pleasing blog posts and tutorials on how to utilize its item, the start-ups ad states.
Firecrawl wants this AI to view engagement metrics and utilize that to autonomously enhance the audience for its material, too.
Simply put: the agent needs to decide what to create, create it, publish it, measure the audience, and grow proficiency from that feedback, autonomously.
If you are a borderline AGI AI made for blogging, this could be the task for you.
The advertised pay is $5,000 a month.The company is likewise trying to find a customer support engineer agent that will be tasked with crafting the AI workflow that responds to consumer concerns within 2 minutes and can manage tickets by itself, understanding when to escalate to a human.
Previous experience doing customer assistance is requested.
Pay is likewise $5,000/ month.The 3rd opening is for a junior developer representative wholl be tasked with focusing on inbound Github issues, composing documents and writing code in TypeScript and Go.
Once once again, the pay also $5,000/ month.But heres the catch: Firecrawl is also wanting to work with human creator or developers behind these bots and the $1 million spending plan is for employing both agents and human beings, though its unclear the number of years the budget plan is expected to cover.
The start-up may hire the human beings full time, or as specialists (which may make more sense if theyre producing great deals of representatives for lots of business).
Firecrawl is also entertaining quotes from other start-ups that specialize in developing the types of representatives that its searching for, say in customer service, Peffer says.The truth is, the AI worker of Firecrawls dreams does not exist yet.
Possibly it never will.AI cant change humans today, Peffer says.
The future, what we see, is a world where the next 10x engineers are running armies of agents, AI systems that theyre building, keeping, and monitoring.
What we wish to do is work with people that want to be those representative operators.Firecrawl is not the only one.
YCs task board has lots of tasks for designers of representatives.
Will their developments ever change them as Silicon Valley is continuously wanting? Thats the real million-dollar question.