Not Another Workflow Builder

12 hours ago

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LangChain has not pursued a visual workflow builder, leaving it to others like LangFlow, Flowise, and n8n.
The main motivation for no-code workflow builders is to allow non-technical users to build agents due to engineering talent constraints and domain knowledge.
Workflows offer predictability at the expense of autonomy, while agents offer autonomy at the expense of predictability.
Visual workflow builders are not low-barrier for non-technical users and become unmanageable with complexity.
For high complexity, workflows in code (e.g., LangGraph) are best; for low complexity, no-code agents are sufficient.
No-code workflow builders are getting squeezed as no-code agents and code-based workflows become more viable.
The future lies in making no-code agent creation easier and improving code generation for LLM-powered workflows/agents.

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