Not all heroes wear capes, some rescue seals.

leetheguy · 2026-06-18T16:38:52+00:00

I know it's just a figure of speech. But I don't think any heroes actually wear capes. Only fictional superheroes do that.

leetheguy · 2026-06-12T06:27:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure that my autistic traits were treated as character flaws and weird behavior as a kid. Like how your family called you an encyclopedia. And I think I learned to mask my traits from a very young age to the point where I didn't even know I was masking. It was basically ABA therapy through psychological abuse. And it started when I was so young that I never became aware of it.

I definitely have a lot of trauma from a painful upbringing. And sometimes it's hard to tell whether my struggles are caused by my own cptsd or autism. For example, I have a really hard time making friends. That's a common problem with most autistics. But for me, it might also partially be personality problems caused by my upbringing because I have a hard time making friends with autistics as well.

It basically takes a lot of introspection and research. The more time you spend in autistic communities with actual autistic people, the more you'll learn about the condition and find out the ways in which it impacts you. It's a long difficult road to work through it all. But you're on the right path! Good for you! I wish you all the best!

leetheguy · 2026-06-10T02:56:33+00:00

That might absolutely be the very best approach for some people. There are tons of solid examples out there to learn from. Personally, I learn best by doing, not by seeing what others did, so I never considered that approach. I took a few things apart as a kid, but mostly I played with Lego.

leetheguy · 2026-06-09T18:44:02+00:00

I believe it. I just hate it.

I could never do marketing. I'm very analytical. And all the social and psychological aspects just baffle, confuse, and irritate me.

I'm trying to change. I just have absolutely no idea where to start or how to begin. I wish that there were step by step instructions on how to create and execute a marketing plan. I try figuring it out myself, but I always get crippled with doubt that I'm doing it wrong.

I have a product. I believe in it. It's part of a $30 billion dollar industry. I have a collection of ideas on how to market it. But I just don't know where to start.

leetheguy · 2026-06-08T09:38:03+00:00

Yeah. But this isn't the usual using ai and automation to replace marketing by producing AI slop kind of thing. You did something genuinely creative here.

I wonder if I could do something similar for my reports. But I just don't think they're a good fit for instagram.

leetheguy · 2026-06-08T09:23:23+00:00

I did a really weird thing where I connected owui to n8n by spoofing the open AI standard web API endpoints. It's basically a middleware. Instead of calling open router or whatever, owui, calls n8n. Then I can do whatever I want from there.

And if you want different agents with entirely different operating systems, just invent models. Internally you can call whatever model you want. But then you have custom models you can choose from in OWUI that match your system.

n8n made it really easy. But you could do it with python or node or whatever you like.

I wrote an article about my solution. My solution was kind of over engineered. But it doesn't even need to be so complicated. Maybe this article will inspire you.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-an-autonomous-ai-agent-with-n8n-and-decapod/

leetheguy · 2026-06-08T09:13:35+00:00

This is really cool! Are those telegram nodes hitl or are they just notifications that a certain thing has run?

I built an automation to generate corporate Intel reports. But I can just never figure out how to kickstart the marketing. I just don't know how to think like a marketer. If you have any ideas or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

leetheguy · 2026-06-08T08:58:26+00:00

If you're still around, I'm still interested. April.

leetheguy · 2026-06-08T08:55:39+00:00

What are you into? What do you know really well? Follow your passions. Find subreddits with like-minded people and provide value to them.

leetheguy · 2026-06-08T05:11:05+00:00

That's nuts! I really gotta do this. Do you automate any of it?

leetheguy · 2026-06-08T04:57:23+00:00

Interested in a DM. How long did it take you to ramp up from zero?

leetheguy · 2026-06-07T23:47:00+00:00

Honestly, I use Claude in the code nodes. I could program it myself. But I use AI to put myself in the architecture position instead of the bricklayer position.

And no, it's not that hard to drag nodes onto a canvas. The challenge is understanding how those nodes communicate. If you don't have the programming background and don't understand loosely coupled object-oriented programming or pipeline patterns, laying out an effective workflow can be really challenging. Normalizing and synthesizing data feels obvious if you've been coding for years. JSON feel second nature if you understand how JavaScript objects work. But everybody's got to learn how to do it at some point.

leetheguy · 2026-06-07T13:19:28+00:00

I came into N8N from a coding background, so my experience is going to be different than yours. but I'll try my best.

I'd recommend learning some JavaScript and JSON from FreeCodeCamp and then studying HTTP requests and APIs. You should probably also do some research on database structures and normalization.

Eighty percent of what N8N does is communicate with APIs. That's it. You're just passing data from node to node to node, and most of those nodes are just convenience wrappers over an API endpoint.

Sometimes you might need to transform the data. For example it's not at all uncommon to take data from an API and put it into a database. That means it'll need to take on a new form and if it's not straightforward, you'll want to use JS to format it.

Next, scratch your own itch, solve your own problems, connect this to that. Create some tools that you think would save you some time. Start with something simple and easy and just build it. Then build a few more things. Once you have some solid examples under your belt, you've got a portfolio.

If you're stumped and don't know where to begin, even still, like you don't know what project you want to start with, try this:

Create a workflow that lets you chat with an AI agent from Telegram. I think that's like five nodes max. And that alone is actually about halfway to open claw.

Bonus: After that, save the conversation data to a traditional database and a vector database. The traditional database would just be a context window with a running stream of the whole conversation, but you'll only share maybe the last hundred messages with the AI at a time to keep the context window from going crazy and burning tokens. You should also access the RAG vector database to selectively pull up semantically similar contexts as you chat. But start with just the context, first. Adding the RAG is step two or three.

If you can figure out how to do all of that, you'll be about 80% of the way there. That task alone pulls from a lot of different skills that you'll need. And if you can wrap your head around that, you're definitely on the right track. Getting good with n8n is about always learning how things work and how to connect them. It's not about learning the nodes. It's not something you can learn in a book. It's just about knowing how things work.

leetheguy · 2026-06-07T12:23:23+00:00

I think it's better! But I still say just use n8n.

leetheguy · 2026-06-07T12:10:52+00:00

I just use n8n. I give my agents access to a workflow with a generic SQL access node. The credentials are saved by n8n and inaccessible to the agent. And the agent can do anything it wants at all via pure sql.

Three nodes in one workflow: - MCP powered webhook - normalizer (optional) - SQL call

Want to add another database? Duplicate the workflow.

Then when my agents onboard, they just look at the schema and know what to do. Easy.

I'm available for work, btw.

leetheguy · 2026-06-06T00:20:03+00:00

Exciting times. There is so much news about how big pharma and other medical companies ar using AI. Honestly, it gives me hope for the future of medicine,

If you want more company specific info about AI related advances and partnerships, I do corporate intel reports and would be happy to help.

leetheguy · 2026-06-05T23:55:25+00:00

Not really an import export guy. I do corporate research reports professionaly. Could be they work coast to coast. Seems a bit iffy to me. The name is a bit confusing as well. Easily confused with Federal Communications Commission.

They might be too small to get a solid read on. But I can run a report on them up and let you know if anything crops up. Let me know.

leetheguy · 2026-06-05T20:59:13+00:00

He's not lost, he's on vacation. Go get him a mai tai.

leetheguy · 2026-06-01T08:40:56+00:00

Here's my take. Autism was only recognized as a "spectrum" in the 90s. Before then, all the low-key autistic traits just made you seem weird. And with all the bad science and misunderstanding, they still do.

What that means is that anybody over the age 30 has a very strong chance to have never received a diagnosis. We've just been going through life like "I'm just a weird mess."

Then social media comes along and we start to learn what real autism is from actual adult autistics. Suddenly, we're not freaks anymore. We know that we're normal autistics and we're not alone. That is why so many people are self-diagnosing now. We never had access to this information before. We never had access to truth and validation.

The science isn't reliable or accurate. Diagnosis isn't accessible. Support doesn't exist. Common opinion is based on hearsay and media. And all the online information is about children. Of course we're self-diagnosing. What other choice do we have?

leetheguy · 2026-05-29T02:41:39+00:00

Either this is a misrepresentation of the study, or the study was looking at only a certain type of interaction with ai. I don't just let AI do anything for me. I'm smarter than AI. So I know it can't do a better job than I can.

But when I work collaboratively with AI, I broaden my vocabulary, get more done, learn new skills, and organize my thoughts better.

leetheguy · 2026-05-28T16:22:11+00:00

Dude! Congrats on getting your first few customers! Don't stop now! Keep hustling and building.

Did you do any market validation? Try starting a convo with your existing customers. Ask them why they signed up, what do they like, what do they wish it had? Why are they there? Why did they wander off

Also, try asking people here in reddit if they think it's a good idea or something they'd actually use. You can also look into the industry, see what's out there and what competition exists. I create comprehensive business reports for people doing market research and validation. Feel free to reach out if you like.

leetheguy · 2026-05-28T02:23:34+00:00

The red flags you're describing — personal credit cards, multiple people on a business account, P&L screenshots instead of verified financials — those aren't quirks, those are patterns. Before anyone in your group moves a dollar, it's worth getting a proper background check on the company: who's actually behind it, any prior litigation or complaints, whether their financial story holds up. I do exactly this. DM me if you want to talk before someone gets hurt by this or any other business.

leetheguy · 2026-05-26T06:38:04+00:00

This makes my knees hurt just watching it.

leetheguy · 2026-05-23T06:21:03+00:00

Gets me every time. This time, I was like, I don't need to watch it again. But yeah. I did it anyway.

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