AI Agents Weekly Digest - Feb 15, 2025

Sorry I missed writing yesterday - I’m working on and tweaking the “AI Agent QA Bot” that the community voted for here so it’s not too spammy and yet can still answer your questions - and doing Valentine’s day prep. I know it sounds surprising because I’m a Reddit mod, yet, here we are. Anyway, onto the popular posts and projects of the week!

Popular Posts

1. An AI Engineer’s Guide on Tools for AI Agents

   1. He lists five tools: GPTs, n8n, CrewAI, Cursor, Streamlit

   2. My personal thoughts: these are fine, but it’s missing the big players for devs - LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, DSPY, automatically makes me feel like the credibility is off

      1. I know the team at n8n, I know the team at CrewAI, these are like no-code/low-code tools which can be fine for noobs to start with

      2. GPT is pretty much used everywhere

      3. Cursor is making waves

      4. Streamlit feels out of place

2. Which (sic) AI Agents do you use daily?

   1. I love that this post was so popular because it’s just a guy asking a question that is a little bit fleshed out, good post, specific asks, even categorized

   2. Answers include:

      1. (from the same guy who wrote the first post) an agent for automating writing blog posts, linkedin posts, technical documents and confluence pages in a the cyber security space, for daily news briefings, for something complicated with SIEM?

      2. Email reply automation/telegram reply automation

      3. Job application/social media/company research automation

   3. Looks like a lot of communication automation

   4. I hope this doesn’t mean the world will really turn into a “yo let me get my agent to talk to your agent” kind of place - feels very ~strange~

3. Which AI tools are you currently paying for on a monthly basis?

   1. This is like THE question people who are trying to monetize their AI tools want to know (that’s the second most popular question on this sub right after “what’s an AI Agent”)

   2. Answers include:

      1. N8n, latenode, ChatGPT, Claude

      2. Perplexity Pro

      3. Gemini

   3. Looks like a lot of LLMs

   4. Looks like the VCs were right about LLMs - they’re making money now - and many people are using more than one, signifying that this is not a perfectly competitive market

   5. The popularity of n8n is quite surprising - I guess the no-code stuff really does reach a lot of people, it reminds me of the whole Bubble thing, which afaik, people still use

Popular Projects

This is my favorite section of this newsletter. I really enjoy seeing what projects people are building in this space. Since these go up on Wednesdays, I’m going to be taking this from the last Wednesday - and it reminds me I should really write these newsletters on Wednesdays to get a full week’s votes in.

1. A planning assistant that is made from LlamaIndex and Pydantic, it breaks a description into: WBS, time estimates, SWOT analysis, sales pitch.

2. Beamlit - Vercel for AI Agents

3. A HuggingFace Leaderboard for AI Agents - this is super cool because it lives on HuggingFace which a lot of devs know about. The leaderboard stuff - ehhhh - don’t know how I feel about leaderboards in general, people (and AI) tend to start to game them after some time, but good for now.

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Special Announcements

Remember - Seattle Startup Summit - is coming up on March 28th, and it features:

• Jon Turow, Partner @ Madrona

• Pasquale DeMaio, VP @ AWS

• Sharon Zhou, CEO/Founder @ Lamini

• Rob Williams, CTO/Co-Founder @ Read AI

• Denny Lee, Confusing Title @ Databricks (I hope he doesn’t read this newsletter lol)

• Alex Yeh, CEO/Founder @ GMI Cloud

• Vijaye Raji, CEO/Founder @ Statsig

• Tony Holdstock Brown, CEO/Founder @ Inngest

• Other companies represented include:

  • Arize AI

  • Hydra AI

  • GenSX

  • Early

  • JPMC

  • Pinecone

  • Elastic

  • GitHub

  • etc etc etc