Comment on What are you using n8n for?

• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I get it. Some of us are staunch anti-ai. That’s fine. I am not an n8n sales person, but I just wanted to make it clear, there are two versions and you can integrate a host of thing into it. Personally, I would run the AI version with a private AI that doesn’t need an external LLM. But my equipment is not that new and it takes some power to run AI efficiently and effectively. No issues with anyone, it just seemed that there was some confusion.

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• INeedMana@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, it’s not

  https://docs.n8n.io/try-it-out/tutorial-first-workflow/#step-four-add-logic-with-the-if-node

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      could be one of those cases where 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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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        could be one of those cases where the product predates ai

        It does afaik, was around for some years while the AI usecase is very recent.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • INeedMana@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank you. You saved me a Google search.

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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The comment was wrong. It’s an automation tool. It can use ai, but its not the primary focus.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wrong?

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

      It’s the main pitch, bro. It’s the primary focus.

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      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And the vast majority of my automations don’t use it because it isn’t required.

        I will stand by what I said, the tool is great even if you don’t touch AI at all with it.

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      • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can integrate a host of things into n8n including AI, however you can also just run n8n as an automation tool without anything else integrated. It does take a little reading of the docs to figure that out. I am sure that most people run n8n with AI, and admittedly, the front page of the n8n site promotes the AI version because other users would like to run n8n with AI. Some in this thread are suffering from knee jerk syndrome.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re welcome, and I’m not wrong.

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