Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring.
But it’s now placed three new ads on YC’s job board for “AI agents only” and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it happen.
Within about a week after the new job posts went live, it had about 50 applicants, founder Caleb Peffer tells TechCrunch.
Firecrawl offers a web crawling tool that scrapes…
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