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Ask HN: Can trivial LLM calls be compiled into conventional data pipelines?

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It would then generate candidate DAGs using the 41 task types as building blocks, instantiate each node with an appropriate implementation, and optimize the composition for quality, cost, and latency. Candidate pipelines would be tested on time-separated and group-separated holdouts before being deployed behind abstention and fallback.The problem is quite likely undetermined based on just the input and output contracts alone even if inferred correctly. The intermediate graph is therefore not a recovered latent reasoning trace.

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We are investigating whether recurring LLM workloads can be replaced, where appropriate, by automatically constructed pipelines of regexes, deterministic parsers, traditional ML and NLP models.As an example, suppose an application repeatedly asks a frontier model to read an annual report and return all customer–supplier relationships as structured records containing a customer, supplier, and supporting evidence.A possible replacement pipeline might run named-entity recognition, entity normalization, candidate generation, entity linking, relation extraction, and schema validation.

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