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M25.1 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Decide where a system follows a workflow and where it chooses actions

Ask a travel assistant to book a trip and it might follow a fixed recipe, or decide each step itself. Learn the difference, and when each is the right design.

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Lesson overview

Ask a travel assistant to book a trip and it might follow a fixed recipe, or decide each step itself. Learn the difference, and when each is the right design.

What you’ll explore

  • An agent selects actions from observations toward an objective, while a workflow prescribes parts of the control flow; language models can participate in either design.
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach — authors’ materialsReActBuilding effective agents (Anthropic, 2024)
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