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You don't need to be technical

I guess this person realized it might not be as easy as connecting 1-2 nodes.

I know, like me, many people started learning automation from YouTube or any other source, just because they showed you connecting nodes and told you that's a goldmine and that you don't have to be technical.

He then goes on to say:

Things started feeling way harder than you thought.

YES. Actually, it is.

Whatever you see on the internet is just the tip of the iceberg.

You don't need to be technical, connect these nodes and that's it. You don't even need to understand anything, use AI to figure it out. Oh boy, how far off this is from reality. Because like you, when I entered the space, all the gurus were saying this. It's so easy, AI can do it. You don't need to understand anything at all.

But this is not a post about n8n, because the same thing they used to say about n8n they're now saying about AI code. Prompt, and it will work itself out. The thing is, if you can't even read the code, how can you trust it? Take this as an example: pick a field you know, ask AI about it. You'll see how good or bad it is.

Now imagine using this to write code without understanding what's going on. Yeah, that's a problem. I wouldn't say keep prompting and get clients. Because if you don't know or understand what the code is supposed to do, you'll end up trying to fix bugs with AI. And trust me, debugging with AI is not fun.

So what would I say to you? Break down the code line by line. Try to understand it, because the more you use the same language, the faster you'll learn how it works. With time you'll catch dumb AI mistakes and go, "lol, this does not make sense," then change a few things, move something over here, and voila, now it works.

Or you could just prompt away and hope for the best.

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