How do you make use of AI/LLM to accelerate the development of business processes with Camunda?
I’m highly interested in knowing how I can leverage these tools (such as Claude) because they must now be able to help accelerate the development more than just using them for some brainstorming, implementation, and debugging.
Could you share your ideas and thoughts about this?
I was thinking of maybe generating BPMN diagrams using them.
In my opinion, and only at the current time (April 2025), I would not trust Generative AI to correctly model anything.
GenAI has been shown repeatedly to simply “hallucinate” when it doesn’t know what the correct answer is. A real modeler would likely put a “I don’t know what happens here” box and flag it for review/discussion.
LLMs don’t actually understand. They simply “guess” the next value, based on a probability from the information that has already been consumed (that’s a whole other conversation) and the item that it is currently on.
Given that there are concerns about both the copyright implications on both the input side of GenAI/LLM and on the output side, I would give it a hard pass for quite some time.
Hi @MrDeeb - it’s only available in SaaS currently, but have a look!
In our experience testing LLMs and building the BPMN Copilot product, LLMs don’t have enough context by default to understand how to build a well-formed BPMN model. Some of the LLMs will output some XML that looks pretty close to valid BPMN, but often it’s missing some critical semantic information.
The AI tools that are generating BPMN models, like Camunda’s BPMN Copilot, have been trained on additional data that gives them the needed context to build those models. If you incorporate a process like RAG into your workflow, it’s possible to feed enough context to an existing model to get something usable. At that point it’s determining the ROI on the effort.
@MrDeeb - great to hear that Copilot did its job! We view Copilot as an assistive tool, so having to make some modifications would be expected. Our goal is that it provides a solid foundation for the work you need to complete and that it helps accelerate your modeling. Sounds like we are on the right path!