Building AI That Builds Itself - Ep. 35 with Yohei Nakajima

Yohei Nakajima⁠ leads a double life. By day, he’s a general partner of a small venture firm, ⁠Untapped Capital⁠. By night, he’s one of the most prolific internet tinkerers in AI. (He also sometimes works on ⁠automating his job as a venture capitalist.)He’s the creator of BabyAGI (@babyAGI_), the first open-source autonomous agent that went viral in March 2023. Yohei has since released seven iterations of BabyAGI, a coding agent called Ditto, a framework for building autonomous agents, and, most recently, BabyAGI 2o, a self-building autonomous agent.I sat down with Yohei to talk about:What feeds Yohei’s drive to create new toolsThe evolution of BabyAGI into a more powerful version of itself What Yohei learned about himself by tinkering on the internetYohei’s personal philosophy about how the tools we build our extensions of ourselvesWhy founders in AI should think about their products from a modular lens, by addressing immediate problems while enabling growth in the futureYohei’s insight into a future where models will train themselves as you use themWe experiment with Ditto live on the show, using the tool to build a game of Snake and a handy scheduling app. Yohei also screenshares a demo of BabyAGI 2o in action.If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more?Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: ⁠https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt⁠. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free.To hear more from Dan Shipper:Subscribe to Every: ⁠https://every.to/subscribe⁠ Follow him on X: ⁠https://twitter.com/danshipper⁠ Timestamps:Introduction: 00:00:59BabyAGI and its evolution into a more powerful tool: 00:02:26How better models are changing the way Yohei builds: 00:05:00Using code building agent Ditto to build a game of Snake: 00:08:10The ins and outs of how Ditto works: 00:13:24How Yohei gets a lot done in little time: 00:19:21Yohei’s personal philosophy around building AI tools: 00:21:50How Yohei experiments with AI as a tech-forward parent: 00:33:13 Demo of Yohei’s latest release, BabyAGI 2o: 00:39:29 Yohei’s insights on the future of AI tooling: 00:51:24Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Yohei Nakajima: @yoheinakajima, ⁠http://yohei.me⁠ Untapped Capital: @UntappedVC, ⁠https://www.untapped.vc/⁠ My first interview with Yohei, around the time he released BabyAGI: ⁠https://every.to/chain-of-thought/this-vc-is-slowly-automating-their-job⁠ The other AI tools Yohei has created: ⁠Ditto⁠, BabyAGI 2, BabyAGI 2oThe tweet thread about AI bots being let loose on a Discord server: https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1847312782049333701