May 22, 2025
Verdict (so far):
I have been searching quite a few ways how to make use of these workflow automation tools but hardly have I found them to work for real marketing tasks. Let's take automating newsletters. What these tool can do is just making simple newsletters and sending them. However, they don't take in consideration segmentation, targeting, tags etc. So automating useless stuff isn't worth it. This is my stance so far.
Questions to ask:
- The premise of AI Workflow Automation Tools?
- Do I need AI Workflow Automation Tools?
Components of AI Workflow Automation Tools:
- Ollama: Ollama as I understand serves many purposes. Technically we can say it is a Local Model Execution Platform. I think we can say it is a tool that: (1) Provides access to large language models (LLMs) locally on your desktop. Simply, through Ollama we can use any LLMs we want depending on the task we have. You could say that we already use ChatGPT website to do this. Why do we need Ollama. As we said Ollama is a local service and through it we can use LLMs locally in our desktops without relying on cloud-based services. (2) It puts into work the underlying hardware resources (CPU/GPU) of your machine to execute AI tasks. This will be hard if you want to try in your everyday laptop because the hardware resources are limited. (3) It integrates with other tools and services.
- Docker Desktop: Isolates running of Ollama...more to this
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