We became aware of some AI tools when we attended the Building your Sales Engine, segment of Nottingham Business School Create Growth course. The session was presented by Click Lab Digital. They certainly showed an AI first attitude in how they create a sales funnel. They showed a couple of tools that I thought we should experiment with.
Lovable is apparently an example of vibe coding. The field is moving so fast that the new term used to describe the low code / no code world was only introduced February 2025 by Andrej Karpathy (1)
I was trying to build out a financial forecasting application. It has the conversational user interface on the left and presents the application in the right hand panel. I like the fact that I can progressively describe the application that I am trying to build. When I see the application, I realize that I need to describe the level at which the forecasts are created and how the pricing assumptions are captured. The Application panel refreshes to show something closer to what I am trying to describe. The pattern of conversation was very familiar to me as a systems architect.
Lovable creates React at the front end, Supabase at the backend and integrates with Github for one click deployment.
What I find very interesting is that the person that brought this development environment to my attention would not describe himself as an engineer, architect or any subspecies of technologist. He was first and foremost a marketeer.
N8n had popped into my newsfeeds a few days before the course, so I was surprised when it came up presented by a marketing expert on a Sales Pipeline course.
The first thing that strikes me is that n8n has evolved from a workflow management mindset. I don't know if they existed in the workflow management space before they became an AI Agent creator.
My first attempt to sketch something, makes me feel that I need to start smaller. There is a lot of capability here that you seem to be entangled with immediately.
I found a great introductory video here.
From Zero to Your First AI Agent in 25 Minutes (No Coding)
So I was reasonably quickly able to construct an agent that can take a request and email me the results.
I looked around for people that had done some of the things that take up my time like marketing automation. (2)
My impressions are that it is 8n8 is a workflow automation tool that has a well thought through model of how to interact with an LLM. This enables a process to be much more autonomous in its execution. It also means that all the fetching and carrying that you have to do with an LLM to bring it things to work on and take away the results can be automated. Loads of pre built adapters to make the process creation easy.
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@karpathy (2025-02-02). "There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists" (Tweet). Retrieved 2025-07-03 – via Twitter.
Dr. Firas. https://n8n.io/workflows/5035-generate-and-auto-post-ai-videos-to-social-media-with-veo3-and-blotato/