Why Most AI Agents Fail (And How to Build One That Works) | Joe and David, Founders of Asteroid

Joe and David are the founders of Asteroid, a YC-backed startup building AI browser agents that can automate real work inside the tools we use every day.In this episode, we go deep on why browser agents are such a big deal and what it really takes to get AI agents into the real world and how YOU can take advantage of them.We also unpack their journey through Entrepreneur First and Y Combinator, the hard pivots they made along the way, why most AI startups risk becoming consultancies, and what happens to jobs when agents start doing more and more of the work.Chapters:00:00 Intro01:47 The power of using AI agents05:21 From fraud agents → the Asteroid idea06:16 How to make your agents reliable09:51 What Asteroid actually does (build, run, monitor agents)13:25 Finding product-market fit19:26 AI safety and supervision at Deepmind28:57 Staying at the frontier of AI agents34:23 Founder lessons and the future of work⭐ Listener Suggestion – CoreWeave – https://www.coreweave.com/👍 Why subscribe?If you build, code, invest or care about the future of AI, startups and creative technology, this channel is for you.🔔 Tap the bell so YouTube tells you when new episodes drop 🔔#AI #startups #founders #agents #automation