What are the most powerful underground AI tools that no one talks about enough?
Summary
A list of six powerful but lesser-known AI developer tools: Instructor for structured JSON output, Octopoda for agent memory, E2B for secure sandboxes, Firecrawl for website-to-markdown, Composio for app integrations, and LiteLLM for multi-model API.
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