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AI agents are like Unix pipelines

AI agents allow you to build autonomous processes to pass data around subsystems, process the data, and generate useful output

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Dave Friedman
May 01, 2024
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An AI plumber/agent inspects a leaky pipe.

I’ve been playing around with various AI agents recently, and it occurred to me that conceptually they’re similar to pipelines in Unix. I think this is helpful framing because it allows us to consider what agents really are: they are modular components that can act and make decisions based on their programming a…

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