Workflows are a sequence of actions with LLMs to process input into a desired output. This is different than most agents that need to first need to decide a plan of action and then proceed.
Some examples from Anthropic’s Building Effective Agents
- Prompt chaining
- Routing
- Parallelization
- Orchestrator / synthesizer
- Evaluator optimizer
- Agent
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It’s still early days for building user applications with AI but we are starting to see things progress as the industry progresses from LLM workflow to AI agents.