The Coolest Agents I've Built So Far
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this Operators Bonus Episode, I pit 16 different things I've built this year against each other in a March Madness-style bracket — from OpenClaw bots and vibe-coded side projects to the Sherlock Holmes-inspired agent ecosystem I'm developing for enterprise AI strategy. It's a behind-the-scenes tour of what's worked, what hasn't, and what I think has the most potential going forward.
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If you want to check out the AI Strategy Agents Mycroft/Holmes I mentioned: https://aidailybrief.ai/ai-strategy-agents
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| 0:00.0 | 16 agents enter the arena, one leaves. |
| 0:02.7 | Today we are doing a head-by-head competition to see |
| 0:05.7 | what is the coolest thing that I have built with AI so far this year. |
| 0:10.0 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. |
| 0:24.9 | We have got a fun little operator's bonus episode for you guys today. |
| 0:30.1 | You might have heard me mention over the last couple of days, Agent Madness. |
| 0:34.3 | The TLDR on this thing is that, one, everyone is building way more agents than we were last |
| 0:39.5 | year. There has been a massive shift over the last three to four months. It is an agentic shift, |
| 0:44.9 | and between OpenClaw and Claudecote and Codex and perplexity computer and all these things, |
| 0:49.6 | everyone is getting agentified. Two, a lot of the people who are going through that are in this community. |
| 0:55.6 | Many of you have participated in the AIDB New Year's projects or Claw camp or Enterprise Claw. |
| 1:00.8 | Many of you are building and sharing things in the AI operators community that goes alongside AIDB. |
| 1:05.9 | And three, since it is March, the season of March Madness, the big NCAA tournament, one of the coolest |
| 1:12.4 | sporting events of the year, I thought we would hold our very own bracket to figure out |
| 1:16.3 | what is the coolest agent that people in this community have built so far this year. |
| 1:21.0 | Now, as I was planning this, I started thinking about just how many different things I had built |
| 1:25.0 | this year. Not all of them have been fully formed, not all of them have been all that useful. But they've all been, if nothing else, helpful in learning how to use some new tool or learning what isn't quite useful for me right now. So what we've done today is put 16 different things that I've built this year. All vibe-coded or AI-assisted builds, many Agentic, up against each other in our own |
| 1:45.8 | mini-tournament as part of Agent Madness. I gave both Claude and Chad GPT a list of the projects |
| 1:51.8 | to seed, and they actually came up with almost exactly the same seeding. The brackets are not |
| 1:56.9 | divided by theme. Instead, we have a diversity of different types of projects, so we can |
| 2:01.6 | have some really strong head-to-heads. When it comes to who or what wins each of these |
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