Comment on What are you using n8n for?

• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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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  • INeedMana@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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