Exploring AI Agent Mania
In this blog, the author shares their thoughts on AI Agent Mania, exploring use cases, skepticism, and more. They use ChatGPT to analyze code, and share a surprising finding. Join them on this journey of exploration!
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swyx.goodenough
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Writing my recap / thoughts on AI Agent mania today for the newsletter.
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023
- 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? -
using chatgpt to rip apart @yoheinakajima's code haha
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023
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 -
One surprising finding that I'm just gonna present without comment because it's kind of a hot take -
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023
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 -
oh no
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023
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 -
it crashed on the git clone
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023
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 -
it is now asking me permission to clone itself
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023
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 -
alright. you should know the core difference between babyagi and autogpt is this thing. https://t.co/r9icZn4Xds
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023
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 -
TIL that @babyagi_'s simplicity and non-use of LangChain is intentional. lots to learn here.https://t.co/cTcy2VyX35
— swyx.ai (@swyx) April 19, 2023