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LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow

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Re: LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow

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Truthfully have been a little skeptical of how many workloads will actually need “agents” vs doing something totally deterministic with a little LLM augmentation. Seems like I’m not the only one that thinks the latter works a lot of the time!

Re: LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow

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this is really cool!

That said, my impression is that Airflow is a really dated choice for a greenfield project. There isn't a clear successor though. I looked into this recently, and was quickly overwhelmed by Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, and even newer ones like Hatchet and Hamilton

Most of these frameworks now have docs / plugins / sister libraries geared around AI agents

It would be really helpful to read a good technical blog doing a landscape of design patterns in these different approaches, and thoughts on how to fit things together well into a pipeline given various quirks of LLMs (e.g. nondeterminism).

This page is a good start, even if it is written as an airflow-specific how-to!

Re: LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow

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this is really cool! That said, my impression is that Airflow is a really dated choice for a greenfield project. There isn't a clear successor though. I looked into this recently, and was quickly overwhelmed by Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, and even newer ones like Hatchet and Hamilton Most of these frameworks now have docs / plugins / sister libraries geared around AI agents It would be really helpful to read a good t…

Dated doesn’t mean bad (usually the opposite in my experience!) What issues do you have with Airflow?

Re: LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow

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this is really cool! That said, my impression is that Airflow is a really dated choice for a greenfield project. There isn't a clear successor though. I looked into this recently, and was quickly overwhelmed by Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, and even newer ones like Hatchet and Hamilton Most of these frameworks now have docs / plugins / sister libraries geared around AI agents It would be really helpful to read a good t…

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Re: LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow

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I'm looking into using LLM calls inside SQL Triggers to make agents / 'agentic' workflows. Having LLM powered workflows can get you powerful results and are basically the equivalent of 'spinning up' an agent.

Know of any online examples of the same?
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