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Re: Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications

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Post by gogwilt »

jayfk wrote: post #21

Are there any real world projects which are open source using this? Would love to take a peek on how this looks like on something non trivial.

Unfortunately nothing beyond the example apps. We wanted to get an example with a full agentic loop together, but settled for the simpler chatbot.

We'd love suggestions here, actually. Can you think of a use-case that might be a good example to open-source? Preferably something that interacts with multiple APIs towards a specific purpose?

Re: Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications

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Post by jamesmcintyre »

This is awesome! I've been looking for exactly this type of solution that gives a more intuitive (yet robust) ui and has node/typescript api (rivets node sdk is even better!).

Quick question, how does it know to choose plugins? I think you add a plugin node to the graph but are there ways in which you can describe what the plugin does so that an llm could dynamically choose amongst plugins? Or is this just building out a graph with nodes that explicitly choose amongst plugins via prompting?

Thanks so much for open sourcing this! Great work!

(also love that your docs authoring look to be assisted by llm's, so meta: https://rivet.ironcladapp.com/docs/api-reference/node/overvi...)

Re: Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications

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Post by gogwilt »

jamesmcintyre wrote: post #26

This is awesome! I've been looking for exactly this type of solution that gives a more intuitive (yet robust) ui and has node/typescript api (rivets node sdk is even better!). Quick question, how does it know to choose plugins? I think you add a plugin node to the graph but are there ways in which you can describe what the plugin does so that an llm could dynamically choose amongst plugins? Or is this just building o…

Thanks! Really glad to hear it, and excited to hear what you think!

Rivet doesn't have a built-in way of choosing between different ChatGPT plugins, so you have to explicitly build out the graph and choose via prompting. We published an example app that actually does this, although the "plugin choosing" part is intentionally simplistic: https://github.com/Ironclad/rivet-example

And yes... the docs and a decent amount of the code was heavily assisted by LLMs (all Andy, not me). Apparently if you look in the commit history, you can kind of see how Andy used Rivet to build Rivet!

Re: Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications

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Post by denidoman »

Nice app, and thank you for OSS!

Am I right, that the following 2 services solve the same product in a similar way: https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow , https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise ?

It's absolutely ok if the answer is "Yes", I think that in this hot market each product will find a place. And competition is also motivate :)

It would be also nice to add Rivet here: https://github.com/kyrolabs/awesome-langchain#low-code

Re: Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications

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Post by gogwilt »

denidoman wrote: post #28

Nice app, and thank you for OSS! Am I right, that the following 2 services solve the same product in a similar way: https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow , https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise ? It's absolutely ok if the answer is "Yes", I think that in this hot market each product will find a place. And competition is also motivate :) It would be also nice to add Rivet here: https://github.com/kyrolabs/awesome-lan…

Thanks!

Yes, I think Rivet, langflow, and flowise all came to the idea of visual programming for LLMs in parallel. I like to think it's a good sign that visual programming is a powerful paradigm here :)

I do think Rivet hits a pretty different use-case. Beyond being in the TypeScript ecosystem, Rivet's remote debugging and embedability are pretty unique, and super critical!

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