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Re: Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

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Post by Flux159 »

deoxykev wrote: post #18
Flux159 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on building out an AI agent right now - looking through autogen, langgraph and other current frameworks along with just building my own logic on top of a workflow orchestrator. The ReAct paradigm for agents makes me think of standard workflows because they're not that different conceptually: Read the state of the world, plan / "reason" based on user intent, perform actions that mutate, then go back and re…

Hey, I’m building agents on top of temporal as well. One of the main limitations is child workflows can not spawn other child workflows. Are you doing an activity for every prompt execution and passing those through other activities? Or something more framework-y?

Right now I'm doing prompt execution in activities, passing results to other activities.

Workflows currently only started after human events, but going to move towards additional workflows started through an activity soon - I'm keeping the state of the world independent of the execution engine so each workflow will read the new state.

Re: Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

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Post by skull8888888 »

hypoxia wrote: post #22

Thank you for building this! It looks excellent and geared at exactly the same problems I've been facing. In fact, I've been working on a very similar package and this may have just saved me a ton of time. Excited to give it a try!

Thank you for the kind words! Feel free to join our discord https://discord.gg/nNFUUDAKub and discuss stuff there. Also ping me there any time, always happy to help you onboard!

Re: Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

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Post by skull8888888 »

uptownfunk wrote: post #25

PSA: It’s really rude when someone does a show HN to go and plug your own competitor. Let them have their moment

Noted. I had no intention to be disrespectful in any sense. Just pointing out flaws and reasons why and how current project came to be.

Re: Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

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Post by bosky101 »

Why limit yourself to AI and agents? seems abstract enough that tasks, and parallel execution could be anything

Moreover, there isn't an example how it `could` work for inference or function_calls/tools/agents

But looks simple to get started and feels like it has the right foundation for good things to come. Kudos!

Re: Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

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Post by skull8888888 »

bosky101 wrote: post #27

Why limit yourself to AI and agents? seems abstract enough that tasks, and parallel execution could be anything Moreover, there isn't an example how it `could` work for inference or function_calls/tools/agents But looks simple to get started and feels like it has the right foundation for good things to come. Kudos!

Totally makes, don't know why I missed agent specific examples... will add them asap.

I focused on the Agent because it was initially built for that internally. But you are right, for the release I made it extremely general and to be used as a foundation for the complex systems.

Re: Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

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Post by uptownfunk »

skull8888888 wrote: post #26
uptownfunk wrote: post #25

PSA: It’s really rude when someone does a show HN to go and plug your own competitor. Let them have their moment

Noted. I had no intention to be disrespectful in any sense. Just pointing out flaws and reasons why and how current project came to be.

Not talking about you!
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