I use AI daily and want to optimize cost and flexibility. Is a ChatGPT subscription still worth it, or is it smarter to shift that budget to OpenAI API usage? For those using the API as their primary interface, how do you structure your workflow, and what trade-offs have you experienced? (Or maybe just switch completely to claude?)

For years, automation meant dragging nodes in tools like n8n, Make, and Zapier. Connect this → map that → handle errors → pray nothing breaks. It worked.But it was fragile. One API change. One unexpected response. And your entire workflow collapses. That’s traditional automation. Now we’re entering something different: 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 Instead of wiring every step manually, you define the goal and the agent figures out the steps. Recently, I built an autonomous AI News Agent using Antigravity, leveraging Claude Opus 4.6 for natural language agent control and Gemini 2.0 Flash for automated news summarization within structured pipelines.The difference was obvious. I didn’t: • Manually define every integration • Hard-code every edge case • Write defensive logic for every possible failure Instead, I defined the outcome: “Every morning at 9AM, fetch important AI news and send me a clean briefing to my Gmail inbox” The agent handled: Research Filtering Formatting Error handling 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐧 Here’s what makes them fundamentally different: • Outcome-driven, not step-driven: You define what needs to happen. The system decides how. • Self-adaptive: If something changes (API, format, response), the agent can adjust instead of crashing. • Less manual debugging: The agent can interpret errors and fix issues without you rewriting the entire flow. • Faster to build: No more wiring 20 nodes. One directive can replace an entire visual workflow. • Scales better: As complexity grows, you don’t get a spaghetti mess of connections. • You focus on thinking, not plumbing: Your value shifts from wiring tools to designing intelligent systems. Traditional tools (n8n, Make, Zapier):You design the steps. Agentic workflows:You design the outcome. That shift changes everything. Instead of being a builder wiring nodes,you become an architect defining intent. Automation was about workflows. Agentic systems are about intelligence. And this shift is just getting started.