automation

Practical workflow automation for people who would rather describe what they want than wire it up by hand. Coverage spans tools like n8n, MCP servers, and coding agents that turn plain instructions into working pipelines for tasks such as news aggregation, summarization, and scheduled delivery. Expect hands-on accounts of building, debugging, and shipping automations, plus honest takes on when visual builders help and when code wins.

coding-agents, automation, n8n, developer-tools

I Stopped Learning n8n. I Just Told My Coding Agent What I Wanted

How an MCP server turned a visual automation tool into something a developer can actually move fast with — and what that means for the way we build workflows. It started with a newsletter. Our AI think tank, AIpster, needed a daily digest: aggregate news from the best AI sources, summarize