Pipelines and AI?

A long time ago I described pipelines and where they could go.

I was made aware of Google’s OPAL project and reminded of how strong pipelines can be for managing complexity.

The pipes are described by prompts but interestingly you can reuse and share pipes and the whole flow. Which leads me to wonder if there might be a little market place for the pipes?

Might need to keep an eye on Opal, but wondering if there are better solutions. For example Xproc which can interface with APIs of large language model without getting into the weeds?