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Devin, the First AI Software Engineer
Good question.
I expect that we're moving into a phase of AIs talking to AIs, and initially it'll be wasteful (because it'll be mostly English), but eventually, they'll derive their own language and seamlessly upgrade protocols when they determine they're talking to an AI. No clue how that will come about or what that language will look like, but honestly, it's kind of exciting.
Really interesting to think about how they might handle context, as well. Even though we have much bigger context windows (and they'll only get larger), context management is still a resource-management issue, which we'll probably continue to refine, as well. Imagine different strategies for managing both what is brought into the context of each request, as well as what form it could take (level of detail, additional references or commentary on it, etc). Things could get really unreadable even in English, and still be very interpretable for an LLM.
W.r.t. the graph-oriented interfaces, are you thinking something like Node-RED [1]? I'm seeing more and more people mention having LLMs produce non-text or structured outputs, like JSON, UI, and other things. Easy to imagine an LLM that wires together various open-source platforms, on-demand. Something like Node-RED for pipelines/functions, some UI tools for visualization/interactivity, other platforms for messaging, etc...
[1] https://nodered.org/
- IFTTT is killing its pay-what-you-want Legacy Pro plan
- Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article.
The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time.
That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't.
- n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/
- Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread)
- trigger dev: trigger.dev
- automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/
- Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introducti...
- Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- budibase: https://budibase.com/
- windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/
- tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows
- Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)
- Zapier: zapier.com/
Anyway I hope some of these are fun!
- Open source IPaaS With Drag and Drop integration
- Ask YC: tracking events platform and no-code workflow
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#OpenSourceDiscovery 84 - Node-RED, alternative to IFTTT or Zapier, a workflow automation tool
Source: https://github.com/node-red/node-red
- Low-code programming for event-driven applications
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n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool
I believe Node-RED (https://nodered.org/) the way to go. It's just an NPM package to install and you can run it how ever you wish (even on Windows). It has a friendly and helpful community with even the main developers tirelessly answering even beginner level questions. In fact the community forum its THE friendliest forum I've ever been a member of by a large margin. Node-RED's development is supported by the JS Foundation and it's completely free and open source. It's widely used in the industrial automation industry and even integrated by some PLC manufacturers such as Siemens.
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Loops and conditional branching (IF then else) in ComfyUI?
Does anyone know if their are plans to implement something like this (or if there are already custom nodes out there). I'd like to experiment with things like looping and incrementing values (like a for loop) for a Ksampler for example. It's only an example though, so I am not looking for a ksampler specific solution; just a generic way to have a variable (e.g. Seed value), run some nodes that use that value, increment the value, and then loop back to the beginning until some sort of condition is met. Node-Red (an event driven node based programming language) has this functionality so it could defintely work in a node based environment such as ComfyUI (see here).
Huginn
- Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
- IFTTT is killing its pay-what-you-want Legacy Pro plan
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article.
The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time.
That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't.
- n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/
- Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread)
- trigger dev: trigger.dev
- automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/
- Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introducti...
- Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- budibase: https://budibase.com/
- windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/
- tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows
- Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)
- Zapier: zapier.com/
Anyway I hope some of these are fun!
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Ask HN: What is the correct way to deal with pipelines?
"correct" is a value judgement that depends on lots of different things. Only you can decide which tool is correct. Here are some ideas:
- https://camel.apache.org/
- https://www.windmill.dev/
- https://github.com/huginn/huginn
Your idea about a queue (in redis, or postgres, or sqlite, etc) is also totally valid. These off-the-shelf tools I listed probably wouldn't give you a huge advantage IMO.
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Are you using Huginn? If so do you have any latest documentation?
Huginn (https://github.com/huginn/huginn) has like some 39K stars on Github and the use cases it covered looks good.
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Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors
Huginn is an another useful tool that allows you to wrangle CSS selectors and XPath nodes to create RSS feeds.
I use it quite successfully to get data out of undocumented APIs and out into RSS.
https://github.com/huginn/huginn
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What web scrapers do you recommend.
I know of Huginn that could be usefull depending on what you want to do.
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Any recommendations for a open source replacement for If This Then That?
https://github.com/huginn/huginn ??
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Looking for a web scrapper to detect changes to a webpage on a schedule
Huginn
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LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
"not a single word about the safety implications of such a system"
Oh please. Not everything has to be regulated-to-hells before a use case is even found on this. Autonomous agents have existed for decades.
If it can automate agents like huginn[0] with natural language, I'd be very happy. Autonomous agents doesn't mean it's going to take over the world autonomously. Let's lower the fearmongering a bit.
[0]: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
What are some alternatives?
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