# Quasi-Agentic Pipelines with Databricks and Apache Airflow

DevFeed: [Quasi-Agentic Pipelines with Databricks and Apache Airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/quasi-agentic-pipelines-with-databricks-and-apache-airflow-38713.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/quasi-agentic-pipelines-with-databricks>)

Author: Daniel Beach

Published: 2026-08-10T21:23:57Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Data Engineering Central](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/data-engineering-central.md>)

Topics: [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databricks.md>), [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/airflow.md>), [Data pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-pipelines.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-engineering.md>)

Tags: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/airflow.md>), [apache-airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-airflow.md>), [data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-engineering.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databricks.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>)

## AI overview

A practical developer discussion of incorporating LLMs and agents into existing data workflows using Databricks and Apache Airflow. It also examines determinism in data pipelines and the gap between business requirements and engineering implementation.

## Source excerpt

the strange space in between