A job listing that pays $5,000 a month, requires no sleep, and promises to post, write, and analyze its own performance? At Firecrawl, it’s a real opening, but for an AI.
The San Francisco-based startup, backed by Y Combinator, is once again advertising roles exclusively for autonomous AI agents. After an initial attempt earlier this year that fell short of expectations, Firecrawl has posted three new positions: a content creation agent, a customer support engineer agent, and a junior developer agent. All three offer $5,000 per month, plus a caveat: these are for AI systems capable of running independently.
Roughly 50 AI-based applications poured in within a week, according to founder Caleb Peffer. The startup has earmarked a $1 million budget to hire both the agents and their huma
Firecrawl Wants to Pay AI Agents but Needs Humans to Build Them
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Firecrawl’s experiment draws attention to the shifting contours of the workplace.
