AI workflows - Elastic: Hope-flows and hard truths

AI Workflows: Elastic

Guest post by Nic Palmer, Head of Customer Architecture for International, Elastic.

AI workflows are critical to modern enterprises, yet they often over-index on the model layer. If there's failure, it usually stems from weak plumbing rather than weak models.

A failure in AI workflow may be a consequence of a ‘hope-flow’.

If you can't see, control, or adapt a workflow from end-to-end, you can't expect it to be resilient. When something breaks at 3am on a holiday, you don't want to be stuck running on hope.

Author's summary: AI workflows require strong plumbing to avoid failures.

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Computer Weekly Computer Weekly — 2025-10-26

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