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🧠 Would You Hire an AI Employee?
From $5K/month AI agents to CEOs ditching podcasts for chatbot convos
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What we’ll cover today:
📌 Firecrawl is offering $1M to hire AI agents as employees
📌 Satya Nadella prefers AI chats over podcasts now
📌 AI is quietly taking over code, content, and customer support
📌 Why startups are betting big on “agent operators,” not just engineers
Source : TechCrunch
Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is hiring AI agents — not humans — to write, code, and do customer support. Wild, right?
🚨Breaking News
Firecrawl is offering $1 million to hire three AI agents as full-on employees. Yes, with job posts and salaries.
⚡Wire Simplified
Firecrawl builds a web crawler for AI tools to read the internet (ethically, they say).
They're hiring a blog-writing AI, a customer support AI, and a junior dev AI — each for $5K/month.
Agents must create, post, improve — basically run solo.
Human builders of these bots may also be hired.
Founder admits: today’s AI isn’t ready, but the future = humans managing “armies of agents.”
✔️Straight to the Point
Firecrawl’s betting big on AI agents as employees. They know it’s not ready yet — but someone has to try.
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Source : Quartz
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is swapping podcasts for AI chats — feeding transcripts to Copilot and talking to bots.
🚨Breaking News
Nadella uses Copilot AI instead of listening to podcasts, and relies on 10+ custom AI agents for daily tasks.
⚡Wire Simplified
Nadella uploads podcast transcripts to AI, then chats about them while driving.
He calls himself an “email typist” who uses Copilot to summarize work.
Microsoft’s engineers are building custom bots for everything from prep to inbox cleanup.
AI now writes 30% of Microsoft’s code, and some engineers are being laid off.
Microsoft is going all-in on internal AI adoption — fast.
✔️Straight to the Point
Nadella is showing the future: forget podcasts, talk to bots. But is replacing devs with AI going too far?
At this point, in many cases, long form content only serves as a catch all net for banging short form content.
With that in mind; the best guests repeat the question so as to make the clip start with a banging hook.
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— Harry Stebbings (@HarryStebbings)
6:19 PM • May 18, 2025
It's been one hour in SF, and Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) is ready to quit his comedy career to vibe code an AI agents b2b SaaS startup.
I'm hosting a dinner on the Tue the 20th with Tanmay and ~15 other folks. Stay tuned for details!
— Deedy (@deedydas)
4:39 AM • May 18, 2025
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