Summary
In this conversation with David Ondrej, Magnus, founder of the open-source project browser-use, describes running much of his startup’s daily operations through autonomous GPT-6 Astra agents. Rather than prompting the AI, he explains how his system now flips the interaction: agents monitor support tickets, code repositories, and social mentions, then proactively suggest fixes, documentation updates, and integrations that he simply approves or rejects, Tinder-style.
The discussion covers concrete examples, including agents merging pull requests based on a review of screenshots alone, testing integrations with other agent frameworks, and even inadvertently publishing a TikTok video link into the README of a 100,000-star GitHub repository. Magnus also recounts a real production failure where running 100 sub-agents in parallel exhausted 64GB of RAM and crashed his laptop, illustrating both the power and current fragility of heavily agentic workflows.
The two also discuss agents automating personal decisions like travel booking and price comparisons, and speculate on how autonomous purchasing agents could reshape product, marketing, and sales strategy for startups. It’s a candid, firsthand look at what running a company almost entirely through AI agent delegation looks like today, warts and all.
📺 Source: David Ondrej · Published September 17, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
