| So I'm currently using N8N quite extensively for automations. It is an excellent platform, very powerful, learning curve for sure. The issue I find is that, so I'm using Windsurf IDE for a lot of things in general, especially for automation. What I find with N8N is that it can take a very long time to configure a workflow when you're creating each step manually in an automation chain. But if I can, on the other hand, prompt an AI agent in Windsurf to generate a Python script to achieve the same thing, it could take me minutes rather than potentially even hours. So it's a lot more efficient to do it at the code level just in Python. | |
| What I'm thinking is that as basically all I need is a server with Python script running, which is the core of what probably N8N is under the hood, it might be more efficient to begin migrating some of these scripts or creating some of these scripts deployed directly on a server in a code environment. This would give me the ability to have an AI agent connect directly to the server, edit my workflows, edit the, etc. | |
| So my question is as follows: if I wanted to take that approach, one of the useful things in N8N, of course, is the ability to save credentials which can be used across your scripts for the different integrations. Is there any platform? I'm always trying to avoid reinventing the wheel. Is there any platform that is intended for this? I keep thinking to myself that if a business comes along and wants to create different workflows for integrating different services, whether it's, you know, it could be relatively mundane back office operations, I can't imagine that they're going to go to N8N. Maybe they are. But I wonder if there's a platform that is intended to provide the overall framework for holding together a bunch of automation. | |
| There might be a GUI for actually managing the Python scripts, managing the environment variables, and that would provide the code frontend to N8N. It would still, however, be important to be able to edit them locally, in other words, to edit or deploy scripts that then get synced up to the deployment environment. But what would you say is the sort of code-first approach here? Is there a framework that is the equivalent of N8N for this? Or would most people just deploy their own Python script library to a server, have it run, and that's how they manage automation scripts in production? |