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points by zomtorg 1 day ago | 0 comments
My 2c is that agents are not at the level where companies can easily just have unconstrained LLM with tools and let it be. Different parts of the workflow can have different models, different tools, different constraints, guardrails, etc.

The entrypoint still has to come from somewhere, and it's much more convenient to be able to explain the security and legal teams how data is handled, what is logged, how you can have control over a scenario where the agent does something unexpected.

Sure, for a personal project that could be enough, but we all know those companies target enterprise customers, and you would be surprised how little adoption there is when it comes to workflow automation due to the lack of controls.

[–] asim 1 day ago
What do you use for that?
[–] zomtorg 19 hours ago
Mainly gRPC for cross-service communication, k8s, and all the workflows on Temporal with the agent logic as activities.

For tracking and adding guardrails across many agents and having caps (e.g. the same agent type can do at most X of this action in 24 hours) I have created https://actera.dev/