What is the actual architectural difference between a chatbot, a deterministic workflow, and an autonomous AI agent?
Developer Advocate Mollie Pettit breaks down when to use a deterministic pipeline versus a goal-driven agent loop:
* Chatbots (stateless): Single-turn text in, text out—no access to live systems or action execution.
* Deterministic workflows (pre-wired): Code-defined sequences (Step A - Step B) that run predictably on happy paths but break on unexpected edge cases.
* AI agents (objective driven loops): Combine reasoning, tools, and memory to plan steps, query live APIs, recover from errors, and pause for human approval before spending money.
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Speaker: Annie Wang
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Developer Advocate Mollie Pettit breaks down when to use a deterministic pipeline versus a goal-driven agent loop:
* Chatbots (stateless): Single-turn text in, text out—no access to live systems or action execution.
* Deterministic workflows (pre-wired): Code-defined sequences (Step A - Step B) that run predictably on happy paths but break on unexpected edge cases.
* AI agents (objective driven loops): Combine reasoning, tools, and memory to plan steps, query live APIs, recover from errors, and pause for human approval before spending money.
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Speaker: Annie Wang
Products Mentioned: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform