#230 Max: I Stress-Tested n8n's AI Workflow Builder – Here’s The Brutal Truth

Everyone says AI can build automations for you. 🛑 I put n8n's new AI Builder through 4 real-world stress tests, and the results were a mix of magic and mess.

We’ll talk about:

• The raw truth: n8n's AI is a powerful skeleton generator, but it struggles with hidden API settings (like Tavily's "Include Response") that cause silent failures.
• Demo 3 Failure: Why vague prompts create broken "spaghetti" workflows, and how to fix them by forcing linear, sequential logic.
• The "Debugging Partner" strategy: don't just let it build; paste error messages back into the chat to have it fix its own variable mismatches.
• Why you still need manual skills: the AI can't guess data structures, so you must verify JSON outputs an ...