What is the exact use of using flow from crew ai and building own flow

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Can anyone help me here to understand, what is the actual use of going to the crew framework for flow implementation.

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@Bharath As stated in the official docs:

  1. Simplified Workflow Creation: Easily chain together multiple Crews and tasks to create complex AI workflows.
  2. State Management: Flows make it super easy to manage and share state between different tasks in your workflow.
  3. Event-Driven Architecture: Built on an event-driven model, allowing for dynamic and responsive workflows.
  4. Flexible Control Flow: Implement conditional logic, loops, and branching within your workflows.

If you have a simple project, you might not need Flows. But it’s easy to go from “I just want a basic CrewAI project” to “I just want to add this one feature.” At that point, using Flows can make things a lot easier and faster because of the things mentioned above.

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Why not design these features for the Crew directly?

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@ME-Msc I’m not part of the CrewAI team, so this is just my perspective.

CrewAI just launched Flows, which is a big upgrade to their SDK. If I were in charge, I’d make major updates like this optional, just like they did. Here’s why:

  1. Keep it simple for users. You don’t want people to feel overwhelmed or confused by new features. By offering an “easy” way to use the SDK, users can start small and build up.
  2. Keep improving Flows. Making it optional gives CrewAI more time to polish Flows, which means fewer bugs and a better experience.

Eventually, they could make Flows the main way of using the SDK, but for now, keeping it optional is a smart move.

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