Crivello: Zapier workflows are brittle compared to context-aware AI agents
Flo (Florent Crivello) · Fire your team and hire AI employees? · Nov 1, 2024 · at 6:23
Florent Crivello, CEO and founder of Lindy AI, explains the fundamental architectural difference between traditional workflow automation tools like Zapier and contextual AI agents.
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“In Zapier, each step is an island. It's isolated. Here, it's an agent. It's an agent that is aware of the entire context of everything it did, and so if you want to do this with Zapier, you're going to have to write, like, an HTML parser. You may not be able to do it. It's going to be hard. It's going to be brittle. It's going to break the moment the HTML format changes.”
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