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13 Hidden Open-source Libraries to Become an AI Wizard 🧙‍♂️🪄

Sunil Kumar Dash on July 18, 2024

I have been building AI applications for the past 4 years and contributing to major AI tooling platforms for a while now. Over this period, I have...

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Marco Lamina • Jul 19

Amazing list! Had never heard of E2B, will check it out.

I've been working on PR Pilot, a CLI / API / lib that interacts with repositories, chat platforms and ticketing systems to help devs avoid context switching.

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 19 • Edited

It looks fantastic, and I will check it for sure.

Piero Savastano • Jul 20

In my agency we are using a lot lately the Cheshire Cat AI, it has a wordpress like plugin system and is already dockerized

For the rest we are planning to ditch langchain in favour of llama-index

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 20

Sounds interesting. Is there any specific reason for favouring LlamaIndex over LangChain?

Piero Savastano • Jul 22

Langchain has become a little messy, too many nested classes, documentation is really hard to search

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 22

That makes sense. It's getting messier—too much abstractions.

Shrijal Acharya • Jul 20 • Edited

This cover image is the best one I have seen on Dev so far! 😻 BTW, what did you use for this?

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 20

Thanks, Shrijal. It was done in Luma AI by an awesome designer.

David • Jul 18

Good list, composio is pretty cool also. I gave you a star!

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 18

thanks, David. It sure is.

ijindal1 • Jul 19

Thanks for mentioning Julep.

Julep is actually more than a framework - it's a managed backend. Kind of like Firebase or Supabase for AI. It ships with a few main pieces -
i. memory (user management)
ii. knowledge (built-in RAG, and context management)
iii. tools (integration with Composio & others)
iv. tasks (Coming soon)

Really excited to see more feedback on what everyone thinks :)

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 19

Thanks for mentioning the additional details, @ijindal1.

Jens • Jul 22 • Edited

Once again such special list of possibilities at which I've to ask myself:
"Where to begin this yourney?" 🙄😏
Thank You for sharing this post! 💖

Jens • Jul 22 • Edited

May be I've found my first choice: 🤔
Retrieval-Augmented Generation with "7. Haystack" and the Gutenberg-text looks very interesting! 😎

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 23

Haystack is pretty good, check their blogs and examples to get started.

Nevo David • Jul 19

Great list!

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 19

Thanks, Nevo.

uliyahoo • Jul 20

What an awesome list, thanks for mentioning CopilotKit!

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 21

Thanks, @uliyahoo; CopilotKit is a great tool.

Martin Baun • Jul 19

I love the piece!
I am curious about setting up agentic workflow with instructor.

Have you set up agentic workflows?

Sunil Kumar Dash • Jul 19

I think Instructor uses OpenAI SDK, so it should be possible. You can see a bunch of agentic workflow with OpenAI examples here: github.com/ComposioHQ/composio/tre.... By the way, is there any specific use case in your mind?