The No-Fluff Guide to AI Agents

In the latest piece in his series Also True for Humans , about managing AIs like you'd manage people, Michael explores the inner workings of AI agents—the next generation of assistive AI technology—and what they need to succeed. He goes in-depth on the reason and act (ReAct) pattern, one of the first attempts to give large language models the tools... See more

In a sign of stranger times to come, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen funded a semi-autonomous AI bot on X with $50,000 in bitcoin, which later pumped a meme-based cryptocurrency called Goatseus Maximus to a market cap that at one point surpassed $1 billion.

In theory, any action that is available through an application programming interface (API) can be done by an LLM. This functionality is available with OpenAI’s custom GPTs—its platform for creating and hosting your own version of ChatGPT—and called GPT Actions.

AI coding agents like Devin are already being tested on completing real-world tasks from freelancer platform Upwork, and have even been spotted asking questions in coding communities when it gets stuck. For $500 per month, Devin can work on your code base independently, doing work equivalent to a junior engineer.