Meet The DevTool Founders Building For AI Agents

YC Root Access · Beginner ·🤖 AI Agents & Automation ·1h ago
In this episode of Founder FAQ, we asked a dozen DevTool founders from companies like Greptile, Firecrawl, Recall.ai, about the state of AI agents and the future of software engineering. We covered everything from agents as customers and the end of coding, to advice for founders starting out and what they're most excited about going forward. Their answers might surprise you. Chapters: 00:00 – Meet the Founders 03:00 – Building for Agents First 04:22 – Biggest Early Mistakes 07:15 – Do Founders Still Write Code? 09:22 – Most Unexpected AI Discoveries 12:09 – What's Underrated Right Now 14:38 – Predictions & What's Next Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Thanks to the following startups for participating: Infisical (W23) Ollama (W21) Resend (W23) Recall.ai (W20) Greptile (W24) Firecrawl (S22) Porter (S20) Mintlify (W22) Unsloth (S24) RevenueCat (S18)[2:18 PM]
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Chapters (7)

Meet the Founders
3:00 Building for Agents First
4:22 Biggest Early Mistakes
7:15 Do Founders Still Write Code?
9:22 Most Unexpected AI Discoveries
12:09 What's Underrated Right Now
14:38 Predictions & What's Next
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