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A job ad for Y Combinator startup Firecrawl seeks to hire an AI agent for $15K a year

Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl went viral on X.  That’s because the ad wasn’t for a human.

The seven-person startup was looking for an agent to “autonomously” research trending models and build sample apps to showcase the company’s product, the ad said. The job offered a salary of $10,000 to $15,000, which is a fraction of what a human developer makes, but perhaps good money for an entity that doesn’t need food, clothing, or shelter. As if all of this wasn’t funny enough, Firecrawler’s three founders — Peffer, Camera and Eric Ciarla — weren’t even accepted into Y Combinator for the AI crawler idea.

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