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title: "Are you building an AI agent or a workflow?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/are-you-building-an-ai-agent-or-a-workflow--phxgqghqh
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# Are you building an AI agent or a workflow?

**[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A brief discussion on the fundamental distinction between building an AI agent versus building a workflow or harness for an agent. The core point is that developers need to take a principled approach to understanding the nature of their problem before choosing an architecture — whether they want a constrained workflow or a free-roaming autonomous agent.

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