Comment on What are you using n8n for?
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months agoAlso would like to know. Bad title.
INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 months ago
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months 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
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Possibly 🤷♂️ As soon as I see AI agent, I stop reading.
INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 months 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
victorz@lemmy.world 2 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.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 months ago
Thank you. You saved me a Google search.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The comment was wrong. It’s an automation tool. It can use ai, but its not the primary focus.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months 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.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re welcome, and I’m not wrong.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
n8n can be run with the assistance of AI, and n8n can also be run without AI.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 months 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.