A busy person’s Intro to AI Agents

Maya Akim
11 min readApr 8, 2024
e2b github’s list of most popular agents

Separating the Hype from Reality

Spring 2024 is here, and it’s not just the flowers that are blooming. It’s the season of AI agent frameworks, each one promising to “disrupt everything” more than the last. You can’t scroll through your feed without stumbling upon a flashy demo on a GitHub repo with thousands of stars, all gained overnight.

The latest AI agent framework — Devika gets 14K stars in less than 2 weeks

These repos promise that anyone, even your grandma who still uses Internet Explorer, can now build an entire app from a single prompt. And for some reason, a large majority of these demos are usually some variation of the classic snake game.

On the other end of the spectrum are people with “exclusive” access or information that they “can’t share yet.” They tease that very soon, [insert-any-industry-here] is about to change forever. But they can’t tell you how or why. Yet.

Although this type of excitement isn’t rare in the AI world, not every AI-related news gets equal attention. In fact, there are only a few…

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Maya Akim

I'm curious about ml/ai and I like to share everything I learn