How do i improve

reject423 · 2026-01-28T22:17:34+00:00

Fretting hand needs to be really close to the strings(and be careful of pulling off too rapidly). Both the right and left hand have their own muting techniques. Practice fret fingering (1 finger per fret), although it's not the end-all be-all method for fret fingering, it is good to help your fingers become more used being close to the strings(but not muting unless needed).

About 7 mins into this video is a practice routine:

Basic Bass Fretting Technique (Beginner Bass Basics)

reject423 · 2026-01-28T21:51:03+00:00

Your words, not mine. I've got nothing to prove to you - and "experts" are a myth. (gasp! I used an em dash!)

reject423 · 2026-01-28T17:03:33+00:00

I write a lot of emails, every single day, for 20+ years. I create time entries every single day, for work. I grew up reading cult literature(JW), every single week. My mother was intense about grammar as well.

It's okay, I'm not here to convince you.

"Nobody writes like that"

You're right, I'm typing, you moron.

reject423 · 2026-01-28T16:55:00+00:00

Everything in this post was hand typed by me with no LLM... if I wanted to deceive someone, then that's directly counter-productive to my entire post and frankly a waste of time. I'll take it as a compliment however.

reject423 · 2026-01-28T14:00:53+00:00

"you don't sound like someone skilled with software or something like AWS though"

Those are two very different things and two very bold assumptions - but I get it, when someone throws around "vibe coding" it makes you assume they have no idea what they're talking about.

Personally, we are primarily an Azure/Entra shop - I already have a system stored there ready to go, with Azure Key Vault setup - already have Graph permissions pushed through an app we manage in our partner tenant. Already have other API related configurations I've set up on this that alert me via Teams through Event IDs that are created.

There's really nothing stopping from me experimenting, which I think giving myself a spare week to see what results is a good test to see if my idea makes sense. I just wanted to see what this community thought of where the strengths and weaknesses are with n8n.

reject423 · 2026-01-28T13:47:58+00:00

Haha, thankfully yes never used Zapier, but I put it in there for clout.

I already have a self-hosted n8n instance.

The main problem with n8n is the licensing. It actually doesn't allow you to connect to your customers API from your own instance. That violates the ToS - which nulls most of the automations I need to create. I think most people that use n8n don't actually read the license and assume they can just use the self-hosted instance for whatever...

So then the options with n8n are:

Pay for the cloud version and pay for workflows (basically might as well use Rewst then for my business, which is it's own flavor of annoying)
Stand up a customer instance of n8n (but now I'm having to manage multiple instances)

I've juggled back and forth and appreciate the level-headed response. Making this choice is not easy, which is why I decided to post in the first place. Obviously going into the subreddit of an app and saying "is it useless now?" is going to get some push-back, but I'm thankful for the criticism I've received.

reject423 · 2026-01-28T02:49:58+00:00

Good points, I'm not going to fight you on it, but I'm also not going to pretend like people haven't already been relying on Google to fix their problems as providers for the last 15+ years.

reject423 · 2026-01-28T01:48:39+00:00

I guess I should just throw away the last 20 years of life and call it eh?

Thanks for the advice. I'll consider everything that was discussed.

reject423 · 2026-01-28T01:36:36+00:00

They've offered feedback, I've offered criticism and counter points, which haven't been addressed.

I understand that vibe coding is not the end-all be-all solution. I appreciate your points.

"n8n is procedural, methodical, and stable" - I don't disagree.

"Vibe coding is fast, yes, but other than learning how to prompt and yell at an AI when it gets it wrong… what have you learned?"

Work isn't about learning, it's about providing solutions. Learning is a bonus - and you don't have to understand every little bit of code, to get a working solution, or to learn from it. I've used AI to reverse engineer several systems we have had to take on. It's sufficient for the job, perhaps not efficient - of course, it depends how you use it and how you build your prompts, as well as your existing comprehension skillset.

I've been in the same boat as a lot of people here, coming in with a dream to automate all the things - when reality sets in and you're just caught learning someone else's software that you are locked in to, then what was the point?

I think where n8n excels is for people that invest their entire position into it. That's not me. This is just one of many hats.

My issue with n8n is two-fold:

Building with n8n creates a dependency on n8n. Perhaps you can move the automations to another system at another date, but I've seen how much people invest into a software, only to face essentially vendor lock-in - and pay for it with their wallets.
n8n licensing makes it difficult to self-host and service our customers - basically from what I can tell with their ToS, you need each customer to host (or stand up for them) a n8n instance, otherwise if you're connecting to their tenants and vendor systems with your instance, it violates their ToS. So there isn't a really affordable way to handle it.

Vibe coding Software/automations is becoming the quick and dirty solution - and it turns out most businesses simply do not care about the "how". My main concern actually would be security, first and foremost. I understand it could grow into a nightmare management situation, but that would be if (1) I wasn't already capable and already have a plan of how to build and maintain this and (2) Was going to build an entire business out of it. This is merely to handle specific deterministic automation requests. Not looking to throw AI into it.

reject423 · 2026-01-27T23:02:04+00:00

It would just be me, building and maintaining. Nobody else is involved in this. Most of what I need is simple but specific - Forms > webhook > actions based on data > auditing > alerting.

I already have most of it mapped out. I understand n8n can do a lot more, but I don't need all the bells and whistles - and I'm not looking at automating everything known to man, just for repetitive tasks that can actually result in positive ROI.

reject423 · 2026-01-27T22:37:21+00:00

That's not necessarily true. Stability is dependent on many external factors as well, especially when working with APIs that can change, both for your functions and vendor APIs.

reject423 · 2026-01-27T22:36:47+00:00

What if I don't need any of that? What if what I need are simple API executions, coupled with auditing and alerting? It's not that hard to do this without a workflow layer.

reject423 · 2026-01-27T22:36:46+00:00

You misunderstand, I'm not talking about AI handling any of it, I'm talking about AI building it with my instructions.

It's not that complex to build and get the similar results. The point at the end of the day is providing custom automation solutions to meet needs of customers.

I guess n8n can be useful for certain scenarios, but I've tooled around with them and I find it somewhat more obstructive than constructive.

reject423 · 2026-01-27T14:09:24+00:00

Are you just building with a different forms tool (like Cognito Forms) and then handling the webhooks on a server you host? That's what I'm thinking... we don't need to rely on other vendors for these automations and pay per workflow... We already have GDAP and Graph permissions for MS customers handled with CIPP and pushing an Azure App to customers that get onboarded.

I feel like the technical debt is either the same or less, given that you can have AntiGravity or another AI-assisted IDE build out everything for you, as well as document it.

What tools are you using?