https://ebkac.org/tags/lessons-learned/ Recent content in Lessons-Learned on EBKAC.ORG Hugo en-gb Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ebkac.org/blog/lernreise-07-tools-and-next/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ebkac.org/blog/lernreise-07-tools-and-next/ <p>Every project like this ends with a set of opinions you did not have before. Here are mine.</p> <hr> <p><strong>n8n</strong></p> <p>I will be charitable and say: n8n is excellent for linear workflows of three to five nodes. Trigger, action, done. For anything more complex, it becomes something I would describe, with some restraint, as binary toxic waste.</p> <p>Visual workflow tools have an inherent problem: the visual representation is the code. You cannot refactor it the way you refactor code. You cannot diff it sensibly. You cannot review it in a pull request. When a node is producing wrong output and you need to understand why, you are clicking through a canvas, unfolding nested expressions, reading JavaScript embedded in a UI field that was not designed to hold much JavaScript.</p> https://ebkac.org/blog/lernreise-06-lessons-ai/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ebkac.org/blog/lernreise-06-lessons-ai/ <p>I want to write this post carefully, because the nuance matters and most things written about AI productivity are not careful.</p> <p>The AI tools I used this week were remarkable and frustrating in roughly equal measure, at different times, for different reasons. Both things are true. Neither cancels the other.</p> <hr> <p>Start with the remarkable.</p> <p>The wiki documentation was worth the experiment on its own. Every piece of infrastructure I provisioned, every workflow component I built, ended up documented in the Gitea wiki in language that a human could read and learn from. Not command logs. Actual explanations: what was built, why this approach was chosen, what to watch out for. This is documentation that would never have existed if I had done the work alone, because I am the kind of person who documents things enthusiastically on day one and then never again.</p>