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Are you doing anything cool with n8n? (sh.itjust.works)
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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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[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

May I ask why you consider n8n risky?

[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just look at the recent vulnerabilities it had. It just had a CVE 10 in January and March of this year.

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=n8n

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a slop jockey and I'm watching people plug these kinds of things into public data and having it do operations with financial/business impacts.

I'd rather employ a gremlin to write scripts.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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 months ago (1 children)

Is there a version of n8n without AI generated code?

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

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

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

OK cool.

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

lowcode environments are the O.G slop.

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

Wow! Well, you can keep your attitude.

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

That is a profound misunderstanding of AI, wow.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 0 points 2 months 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.