Good read. Reading this I am reminded of very similar arguments for the workflow pattern, that is systems designed as a collection of decision nodes and processing steps, linked by a state machine that governs the order of execution. The key difference to an AAI seems to be the planning step, where in a workflow, planning is a design-time task (i.e. specifying the state machine), while in an AAI planning is a run-time ad-hoc task delegated to an LLM. Thoughts?
This is a good analysis. It's not a conincidence that you see similar overlaps, since my preference for building Agentic AI is to follow the Workflow Pattern. This is a bit controversial since most of the AI Labs push the more autonomous approach, but imo it's a bit overhyped, harder to maintain/debug, costly, and doesn't really deliver the same level of results as the workflow based one.
Thanks - indeed wasn'g aware of your earlier article. Well argued, thinking along the same lines. Great to see a solid engineering approach v.v. all the hype.
Thanks for this. What are your thoughts on agents being produced by existing SaaS players like Salesforce via Agentforce?
I have to study them more. Haven't been very useful to me, but I also have to test it out better
Good read. Reading this I am reminded of very similar arguments for the workflow pattern, that is systems designed as a collection of decision nodes and processing steps, linked by a state machine that governs the order of execution. The key difference to an AAI seems to be the planning step, where in a workflow, planning is a design-time task (i.e. specifying the state machine), while in an AAI planning is a run-time ad-hoc task delegated to an LLM. Thoughts?
This is a good analysis. It's not a conincidence that you see similar overlaps, since my preference for building Agentic AI is to follow the Workflow Pattern. This is a bit controversial since most of the AI Labs push the more autonomous approach, but imo it's a bit overhyped, harder to maintain/debug, costly, and doesn't really deliver the same level of results as the workflow based one.
Broke down this in more detail over here, if you missed it- https://artificialintelligencemadesimple.substack.com/p/how-to-build-agentic-aiagents
Thanks - indeed wasn'g aware of your earlier article. Well argued, thinking along the same lines. Great to see a solid engineering approach v.v. all the hype.