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?

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    Also would like to know. Bad title.

    Edit: it’s more AI agent shit. Disregard everything. I don’t want to know more.

    Edit 2 for some of you:

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

    Right on the frontpage.

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      Edit: it’s more AI agent shit. Disregard everything. I don’t want to know more.

      n8n can be run with the assistance of AI, and n8n can also be run without AI.

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        Anything that puts on the front page of its project site the use case for itself to relate to AI agents instantly makes me suspicious and not interested. I can’t help it.

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        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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          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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              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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                But it does make it its elevator pitch, so call me not interested. And that’s fine.