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What are you using n8n for? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I see n8n everywhere and while I love automation I can't think of a use case, that couldn't be realized in Bash instead.

So I'm wondering, if you use n8n what are you using it for?

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[–] 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

No it's not?

n8n gives you more freedom to implement multi-step AI agents and integrate apps than any other tool.

🤷‍♂️ Guess their frontpage is full of shit then.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    could be one of those cases where the product predates ai but some c-level asked an engineer "could we use this for ai" and the engineer said "i mean, technically yes" and then marketing changed every single mention of the product

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Possibly 🤷‍♂️ As soon as I see AI agent, I stop reading.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    yeah this project has been on github for six years and seems to have been closed source before that. it's a graphical automation tool.

    like, everything can be used with ai. github itself has "ai agent" plastered everywhere. it's just a buzzword. doesn't mean it's built specifically for ai.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's automation. Skim the link I sent. Something pops up in a log file or an API returns X instead of Y and you can do some logic based on that. Send yourself an email, ping another API, etc. Sure, you can use it to query an LLM API but that's just marketing. Frontpages are marketing, yes

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Skim the link I sent.

    Marketing matters. I am not interested. And that's fine. I don't have any use for this product, AI or no AI. Everyone can go about their business now and relax all your efforts to make me interested in this. Thank you for showing me that respect.

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