AI Agents Weekly Digest - June 16, 2025

Agents that actually work

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Yujian Tang
June 16, 2025

The theme from this last week of AI Agents is agents that actually work. Our top posts where a collection of tips on what someone is seeing work, agents that save time, and an agent for dealing with scam calls.

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  1. Things that are actually working with AI Agents

    1. Multi agent systems beat one big agent systems

      1. I agree

    2. Backend automation is better than chatbots

      1. both are making lots of money in my experience

    3. Human in the loop isn’t optional

      1. I have an autonomous agent running :^)

  2. What AI Agents are saving you time?

    1. Top response is:

      1. Windsurf/Cursor (I use Cline)

      2. Intercom Fin

      3. Frizerly

      4. Clay

  3. Phone call agent to deal with scammers

    1. The full title of this post is actually “Built an AI agent that autonomously handles phone calls - it kept a scammer talking about cats for 47 minutes” which is kind of funny

    2. Who talks for 47 minutes to an AI? Idk, but they must not be very tech savvy

      1. Actually top comment is - plot twist it was another AI Agent!

  1. Gappy, an AI coworker

  2. AgenticFirst, a low-code agent builder platform

  3. Macro Agent Refinement, something to keep track of agent definitions

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