๐Ÿฟ The Missing Tool in Your Tech Stack


Hey Reader,

A couple of weeks ago, I kicked off the AI Agent Series ๐Ÿง โš™๏ธ and the response has been wild ๐Ÿคฏ.

So many of you said, โ€œI had no idea it was this fast to build AI Agentsโ€.

I walkthrough simple AI Agent Frameworks like this to make it useful for you.

No fluff, no abstractions. Just real tools, real use cases, and clean architecture that you can build on.

And Today, weโ€™re diving into an AI tool that every developer should be using and is probably missing from your Tech Stack.

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๐Ÿฟ Weekly Snack: Build your Own AI Agent Assistant

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Let's be real. If youโ€™ve ever tried to build with LLMs directly, you know the pain.

The code is not intuitive, and changes completely depending on the AI provider such as OpenAI, Anthropic etc.

Thatโ€™s where the Vercel AI SDK saves the day.

The Vercel AI SDK is a smart wrapper around popular LLM providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and more. It gives you a consistent API no matter which model you use.

Here's a visual snippet:

Here, we're building a simple Agent Assistant ๐Ÿค– for me.
This assistant has access to a generateKeywords tool, and we're using Anthropic (via the Vercel AI SDK) as the model behind it.
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โ†’ anthropic(): a wrapper from the Vercel AI SDK that gives you a clean way to use Claude 3.5.

โ†’ tool() defines a real function your agent can call. In this case, generateKeywords helps make YouTube videos more searchable.

โ†’ zod - a powerful validation library that makes sure your tool only runs when the inputs are correct.

โ†’ Agent() (from Convex) ties everything together.

It combines the model, instructions, and tools into an AI agent that can actually do things, not just respond.

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Notice how readable and flexible this is.

You donโ€™t need to deal with model-specific logic or custom wiring. Just build your tools, give the agent instructions, and youโ€™re done.

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You can now deploy your own MCP server on Vercel โš™๏ธ, multi-agent LLM apps just got way easier to build.

This new notebook-style UI built ๐Ÿ““ with Shadcn gives Notion and Jupyter a run for their money.

โ€‹Databricks acquired NeonDB - a big step toward the most dev-friendly cloud database.

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