Automating company operations and repetitive work with AI agents, n8n and Claude
View All TagsHow to turn a video file into SRT subtitles on a Mac without an OpenAI API key or a paid captioning service. I ran every step myself, from creating a virtual environment and installing packages to a copy-paste script, real output, and the errors you're most likely to hit.
Before you use an AI-generated analysis as is, check the baseline period, the sample, the unit being counted, source bias and causal order. I show how with calculations on real public data, plus a review prompt you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude and a 15-item checklist.
We fetch the same weather data twice: once by calling the API directly, and once by wrapping it in an MCP server and opening the tool description the AI actually reads. With a free public API and a single Python file, you can see the difference between API and MCP for yourself in 15 minutes and decide when to use which.
'In The Loop 2026', n8n's first official in-person conference, takes place in Berlin in October 2026. I connected the official mobile app (Fliplet Hub) installed on my phone over wireless ADB and took it apart: the session agenda, the networking concierge, floorplan pinpointing, and 'Node Runner', a game where you roam the venue scanning node QR codes to complete a workflow. A look at the tech stack behind a developer event.
Give it an n8n workflow link and it collects the execution log, node icons and the real input and output screens, then builds a 9:16 vertical explainer video. I walk through it with two examples, a comic-translation bot and a weather alert. The key is a structure that splits the collected information into spec.json so you don't rewrite code for every workflow.
