Exploring AI Agent Mania

Writing my recap / thoughts on AI Agent mania today for the newsletter.

- if you've used @babyAGI_ / @AutoGpt for something interesting: what's a good usecase?

- if you're highly skeptical: why?

- if you want to see more: elaborate?

— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023

using chatgpt to rip apart @yoheinakajima's code haha

this feels like cheating. i cant look at any new codebase without this visualization again (cc @shanealeven or @danlovesproofs maybe already has a smarter take on this) pic.twitter.com/GvRI4PxUGb

— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023

One surprising finding that I'm just gonna present without comment because it's kind of a hot take -

Despite needing to:
- store and retrieve from @pinecone memory
- craft agentic and generative prompt templates
- chunk long text

*neither* babyagi nor autogpt use @LangChainAI👀 pic.twitter.com/mncKiuLakn

— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023

oh no

i asked autogpt to research ai agents

it is now asking me for permission to clone babyagi

i'm scared of saying yes pic.twitter.com/9rtBpDtf2F

— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023

it crashed on the git clone

i restarted

now my blogpost writing bot is trying to send a tweet to myself to "ensure i dont forget any important details"

this project has 100,000 github stars lmao pic.twitter.com/SVla4f0OwG

— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023

it is now asking me permission to clone itself

so it can delegate work to other agents

to have them solve the things it cant solve

i'm gonna need to invent "bobagi" to ask:

"what would you say ya do here"? pic.twitter.com/JZXWgdZWyC

— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023

alright. you should know the core difference between babyagi and autogpt is this thing. https://t.co/r9icZn4Xds

babyagi comes with nothing, autogpt comes with a bunch of tools out of the box, some of which are great, some are eclectic (why do i need to tweet lmao gtfo) pic.twitter.com/b9iv7M9f72

— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023