Agent Founders: Surviving the Lab Launch Week

You wake up, check your phone, and a lab's launch post looks a lot like your roadmap. For an agent startup, that moment can decide whether you keep building or start scrambling, so you have to hear how Grant and Miles work through it on this episode of Year One. They start with what shipped this week, including Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 and the lab heading into its IPO roadshow. Then they ask the better question: which parts of an agent company are still standing after the next release? Their answer is their own opinion, not a YC partner's. They split features a lab ships for everyone from workflows tied to one customer's specific processes, then give you a three-question checklist to run on each part of your product this week. They also point to YC office hours and Bookface as places to ask peers before launch day instead of after. This one is especially relevant for early-stage founders building AI agents on top of frontier models.