--- schema: 1 type: video title: Building AI That Builds Itself - Ep. 35 with Yohei Nakajima description: >- 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 capitalistVC.) 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 (each one named after a different animal), a coding agent called Ditto, a framework for building autonomous agents, and, most recently, BabyAGI 2o, a self-building autonomous agent (that follows OpenAI’s unfortunate naming convention). Even more incredible, Yohei isn’t a professional developer. His day job is as the general partner of Untapped Capital (@UntappedVC). I sat down with Yohei to talk about: - What feeds Yohei’s drive to create new tools - The evolution of BabyAGI into a more powerful version of itself - What Yohei learned about himself by tinkering on the internet - Yohei’s personal philosophy about how the tools we build our extensions of ourselves - Why founders in AI should think about their products from a modular lens, by addressing immediate problems while enabling growth in the future - Yohei’s insight into a future where models will train themselves as you use them We 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. This is a must-watch for anyone curious about autonomous agents, building cool AI tools on the internet, and the future of AI tooling. 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: 00:00:00 - Teaser 00:00:59 - Introduction 00:02:26 - BabyAGI and its evolution into a more powerful tool 00:05:00 - How better models are changing the way Yohei builds 00:08:10 - Using code building agent Ditto to build a game of Snake 00:13:24 - The ins and outs of how Ditto works 00:19:21 - How Yohei gets a lot done in little time 00:21:50 - Yohei's personal philosophy around building AI tools 00:33:13 - How Yohei experiments with AI as a tech-forward parent 00:39:29 - Demo of Yohei's latest release, BabyAGI 2o 00:51:24 - Yohei's insights on the future of AI tooling canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/building-ai-that-builds-itself-ep-35-with-yohei-nak-5af5df271d90 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/video/building-ai-that-builds-itself-ep-35-with-yohei-nak-5af5df271d90.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md' channel: everyinc updated: '2026-10-24T01:10:59.532Z' language: null children: [] videoId: 864X81BuQbI durationSeconds: 3489 publishedAt: '2024-10-23T14:54:49.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 149 endSeconds: 160 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=149' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 160 endSeconds: 304 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=160' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 314 endSeconds: 492 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=314' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 822 endSeconds: 903 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=822' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 903 endSeconds: 913 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=903' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 1021 endSeconds: 1169 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1021' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 1179 endSeconds: 1313 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1179' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 1313 endSeconds: 1324 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1313' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 1465 endSeconds: 1563 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1465' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 1576 endSeconds: 1654 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1576' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 1666 endSeconds: 1788 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1666' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 1799 endSeconds: 1899 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1799' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 1913 endSeconds: 1993 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=1913' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 2096 endSeconds: 2175 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2096' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 2185 endSeconds: 2275 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2185' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 2286 endSeconds: 2373 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2286' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 2387 endSeconds: 2479 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2387' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 2479 endSeconds: 2489 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2479' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 2593 endSeconds: 2691 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2593' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 2701 endSeconds: 2801 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2701' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 2813 endSeconds: 2934 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2813' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 2946 endSeconds: 3089 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=2946' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 22 text: null startSeconds: 3100 endSeconds: 3179 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=3100' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 23 text: null startSeconds: 3289 endSeconds: 3377 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/864X81BuQbI?t=3289' heldReason: rights --- # 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 capitalistVC.) 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 (each one named after a different animal), a coding agent called Ditto, a framework for building autonomous agents, and, most recently, BabyAGI 2o, a self-building autonomous agent (that follows OpenAI’s unfortunate naming convention). Even more incredible, Yohei isn’t a professional developer. His day job is as the general partner of Untapped Capital (@UntappedVC). I sat down with Yohei to talk about: - What feeds Yohei’s drive to create new tools - The evolution of BabyAGI into a more powerful version of itself - What Yohei learned about himself by tinkering on the internet - Yohei’s personal philosophy about how the tools we build our extensions of ourselves - Why founders in AI should think about their products from a modular lens, by addressing immediate problems while enabling growth in the future - Yohei’s insight into a future where models will train themselves as you use them We 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. This is a must-watch for anyone curious about autonomous agents, building cool AI tools on the internet, and the future of AI tooling. 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: 00:00:00 - Teaser 00:00:59 - Introduction 00:02:26 - BabyAGI and its evolution into a more powerful tool 00:05:00 - How better models are changing the way Yohei builds 00:08:10 - Using code building agent Ditto to build a game of Snake 00:13:24 - The ins and outs of how Ditto works 00:19:21 - How Yohei gets a lot done in little time 00:21:50 - Yohei's personal philosophy around building AI tools 00:33:13 - How Yohei experiments with AI as a tech-forward parent 00:39:29 - Demo of Yohei's latest release, BabyAGI 2o 00:51:24 - Yohei's insights on the future of AI tooling Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/building-ai-that-builds-itself-ep-35-with-yohei-nak-5af5df271d90 · Channel: [Every](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.