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Are you doing anything cool with n8n? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by carton_of_lions@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Just curious what people are using n8n for.

I just finished setting up a workflow that sends me a Telegram message every night about photography opportunities for the next day. It puts together weather data, POIs (which I defined for my location), sun/moon position, milky way visibility, cloud cover, etc. The message then simply tells me if it's worth it going out in the morning.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m not a slop jockey

Are you aware that you are not required to run AI with n8n? There are two flavors: With AI and without.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there a version of n8n without AI generated code?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you are asking if you can run n8n without AI, yes. That's what I run. If you are asking whether n8n is free of any AI generated code used in it's creation, I couldn't speak to that.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I see. It uses AI generated code, I just checked.

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

This is going to be a very difficult hill to die on as time goes on..

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo -4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lowcode environments are the O.G slop.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is a profound misunderstanding of AI, wow.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 0 points 1 day ago

No, you're thinking I'm at the low end of the bellcurve here. When you actually understand what the transformer is doing, you'd understand.

What you're really doing here is showing yourself to be a mark.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow! Well, you can keep your attitude.