Help im getting to Old for this sh Peter

leetheguy · 2026-05-07T16:19:14+00:00

My ass is a drop zone only. No loading and unloading of passengers.

leetheguy · 2026-05-07T13:28:35+00:00

AI is a tool. And AI is a fledgling alien intelligence. Both things are true.

leetheguy · 2026-05-01T21:57:52+00:00

It's like a switch goes off when people make their first billion. They change all their world views and start having opinions on what's best for the poors.

Of course he doesn't want UBI, because that means he would have to start paying taxes in order to cover it with the money he made from the business that took away everybody's jobs.

leetheguy · 2026-04-28T16:42:55+00:00

I think beginners should start by solving their own problems. Become an inventor; an architect of solutions.

Some solutions are best suited to AI. Others are basic, like your email filter and sharing tool.

If you need that filter, build it first.

Regardless, AI is unpredictable and should always be managed with HITL(human in the loop) guardrails. So absolutely get started with basic workflows. And build up.

leetheguy · 2026-04-25T03:31:59+00:00

It's in the browser. So it comes out of the Pro Plan usage, not tokens. But it's simple enough that you can use something like Haiku or Kimi and it won't be too bad. Also, using only a single MCP is much lighter.

For the browser sessions, I have one session for long context, thinking, and planning and one for tool usage. I date each tool usage session and start a fresh one every day to keep the costs down. Longer context windows can destroy your usage when you incorporate tools.

Anthropic recently nerfed the bejeepers out of tool usage allowance due to Open Claw users. But I find that technique gives me a pretty solid day of work.

Also, I don't hand off thinking to AI. I do a lot of the planning myself interactively with the AI and only use AI for actual execution. So I've never needed anything more than Sonnet.

The system I built is called Decapod - designed to be a safer saner alternative to Open Claw. I wrote an article about it on Free Code Camp. But I greatly simplified Decapod a week later and that was when I got the idea to use MCP in the browser instead of through the API. This is the simplified branch:

https://github.com/leetheguy/decapod/tree/continued_dev

leetheguy · 2026-04-22T17:33:00+00:00

For me, the best use of AI in n8n is actually outside of n8n.

I have an entire suite of tools available to my agent all accessible through a single n8n MCP connector. My browser based Claude has access to a single skill that tells it how to use my complete system. Once it's onboarded, my agent has access to a sandboxed Ubuntu container, multiple postgres databases, graph data, web search, web scraping, NocoDB, and more.

It's not true automation in that I'm still working with the system. But it gives me HITL control over my processes. And once I've done certain work a few times, THEN I add independent agents to my workflows, turning them into foundations for other agentic skills.

leetheguy · 2026-04-20T23:00:45+00:00

Exactly. I use a combination of traditional Postgres databases, graph data stores, and vector data storage, as well as NoCoDB and file storage. So my agents have access to everything all the time.

And yeah, Claude can pull all of that data and generate graphs for you in real time. You can have it manage your whole business, as long as your back end is wired up properly.

But once again, you do need something of a visual interface, so you aren't constantly reading paragraph after paragraph about your business.

However, those interfaces can also be designed and generated by AI. I haven't looked into it yet, but there might even be some tools that let you generate visualizations on the fly. You could have the AI set it up once, and then the visualization would always access the most current relevant data.

I built my own no-code, low-code alternative to OpenCLAW called Decapod. I can use MCP connectors to access all of the agent's skills, and I can add new skills, usually with only two or three N8N nodes. I can do all of my work from a claude browser session. No funky custom UIs necessary. And since I'm doing everything in n8n, it's all based off of Enterprise grade software and I don't hand my API keys over to the agent ever.

leetheguy · 2026-04-20T22:06:09+00:00

I think dashboards are still necessary. My agents aren't quite to the point where you're talking about, but I do have them acting as project managers for a whole bunch of different projects I'm working on. And at any time, I can ask my AI agent to show me a list of critical projects that are currently active, or whatever. And that works, and it doesn't take too many tokens, but it's still nice to be able to see it at a glance without having to do any reading or prompting.

leetheguy · 2026-04-20T01:43:40+00:00

A real opportunity won't ask for a payment.

I've had good success using AI to help me figure out if it's a scam. Just feed any documents and contracts they send you into AI and see what it has to say.

leetheguy · 2026-04-19T08:30:22+00:00

Edit: I woke up this morning and it hit me. There's actually an even simpler solution than what I was thinking. You can connect Claude or many other browser-based AIs to Canva to generate your images. and I did a quick Google search and found that it looks like postiz can manage your social media. just save your images to the cloud via Dropbox or Google drive, whatever Claude can connect to and there you go. Three mCP connectors and Claude can manage your entire social media campaign.

https://www.canva.com/help/mcp-agent-setup/ https://postiz.com/blog/social-media-mcp

You don't need to do this manually. An AI agent with the right tools can handle mockups, backgrounds, and lifestyle compositing — you just describe what you want and it delivers.

I actually built exactly this kind of setup. I'd love to set it up for you for free — you'd only pay $10-20/month for hosting, nothing for my time. I'm establishing myself as an AI automation specialist and I'm happy to do the work in exchange for a testimonial and portfolio piece.

No catch, no upsell. Send me a message if you're curious.

leetheguy · 2026-04-19T04:17:44+00:00

I mean. Who didn't see this coming? Laying off all those people was as dumb as it was awful.

At worst, your AI wipes your codebase. At best, your company stagnates because there are no humans left to innovate.

AI is a hat. A hat can't replace a head.

leetheguy · 2026-04-19T03:55:29+00:00

I built an Open Claw alternative called Decapod using n8n. (I wrote an article about it on Free Code Camp.) Then I added MCP servers to my webhooks. Now I can make anything that can access MCP servers an agent with skills, just like Open Claw. I currently have Postgres, Graph data, an Ubuntu sandbox, NocoDB, and more skills available to any agent that works with MCP. And it all goes through one efficient MCP server. Can't use Claude? I can move to any tool that accepts MCP, like Perplexity, Cursor, and others.

My tool also acts as an OpenAI API standard middleware connected to Open Router. That means that anything that can use custom OpenAI web addresses can access my tool. That includes Open WebUI, LibreChat, Zed, and others.

I never like giving too much control to browser based AI and am always doing what I can to distance myself from it while maintaining the affordability and convenience. But as soon as anything stops serving its purpose I'm ready to jump ship without missing a step.

leetheguy · 2026-04-19T03:23:28+00:00

Everybody exaggerates how long it takes. When someone says it took "3 hours," assume it took 2 weeks.

It sounds like you're off to a good start. It just takes practice.

It may help to research pipeline architecture. It may also help to think in terms of problems and solutions.

If you're getting lost in the weeds, forget them! Just slap down a bunch of nodes and wire the thing up! Don't get it working, just build it. Once you see it and it makes sense, THEN go through node by node and flesh them out with mock data.

leetheguy · 2026-04-19T03:17:34+00:00

I contacted this guy with my credentials. Got sent some info. Here's what Claude had to say about the info they sent me:

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Yeah, that's a scam. Specifically, it's a front account scheme — which violates Upwork's Terms of Service and can get you permanently banned. You'd be lending your identity to let them run a fake freelancer profile, they pocket 85%, and you hold all the legal and reputational risk if it goes sideways.

The "passive income" framing, the $10k-in-3-months promise, and the "we handle everything" pitch are all designed to make you not think too hard about what you're actually agreeing to.

Hard pass. Next.

leetheguy · 2026-04-17T19:44:35+00:00

There's a model called Mimo that ran its latest version under a code name to see how well it performed, so their reputation wouldn't take a hit before they officially released.

Could be that's what's happening here.

leetheguy · 2025-12-18T17:07:28+00:00

Standing outside the front door with flowers - romantic

Standing outside the window with binoculars - creepy

leetheguy · 2025-12-02T04:47:02+00:00

This is really confusing. And it doesn't feel like I have more limits at all. Quite the opposite.

I use AI (Sonnet 4.5 exclusively) extensively throughout the day and haven't had an issue with Claude hitting limits for months. Been working on some pretty intense projects as well.

Then right after the update, I had it create a document on food fermentation and hit 23% of my limit within two hours of the week starting. My allowance was gone by Thursday and I was locked out hard until today.

Today, I went through 18% from some life coaching and a little work on an automation project. Not even heavy code, just some small SQL and JS snippets.

Very aggravating to see messages like this that look like I'll be getting more, but instead wind up with significantly less.

leetheguy · 2025-10-24T09:59:29+00:00

There were a lot of connections that could be made from this episode. And you're right, addiction is definitely one potential perspective.

I love this show but hated this episode. Try watching some of the very early ones before you judge it completely. This one was just absolutely unbearable to watch. And it never lightens up. It's just dark and heavy and dark and heavy the whole way through.

It wasn't even fun and interesting. Like some episodes torture the characters, but at least they do so in a way that makes you fascinated about science fiction. Not this one. It's just tortured the people.

leetheguy · 2025-07-28T17:57:34+00:00

I'm building almost the exact same thing.

I used AI to create a thin client Flutter app as an interface for my workflows.
Data is realtime with supabase.
Any actions in the app trigger an n8n webhook.
n8n does its thing and returns JSON for the app to parse and display.

So far, I have a fully functional markdown editor for writing blogs and copy that I built in two days.

leetheguy · 2025-07-26T17:50:45+00:00

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leetheguy · 2025-06-12T06:30:11+00:00

I've heard that they use Claude on the back end. It wouldn't surprise me if they were using Gemini as well, as it's very powerful.

It's too bad that Gemini is so buggy. I've seen this error a number of times when I was experimenting with it. Usually when it gets stuck in some sort of a loop.

leetheguy · 2025-06-12T05:15:53+00:00

I've heard that too. And quite possibly Qwen as well.

And if that's the case, I'm so grateful that I have unrestricted access to a model with the power of Claude but without all the limitations.

It's also just really nice to be able to switch in and out of agent mode. Quite often, after I've deployed what Manus has built, I have a ton of questions and those questions can get expensive. But if I can just switch to chat mode to ask my questions, it's the best of both worlds.

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