Finance graduate spends six months self-teaching n8n and AI agents
What happened
On October 22, Hacker News featured a finance graduate's account of six months self-teaching n8n workflow automation. Along the way he tried combining automation with AI agents, and he reflects on having fallen into "tutorial hell": hours spent browsing tutorials on Reddit, Medium and YouTube without actually building anything. In this retrospective he argues that real skill doesn't come from watching tutorials but from hands-on practice and learning through repeated failure.
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- Hacker News front pageWhat I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose
一名金融专业毕业生用六个月时间自学 n8n 工作流自动化，并尝试将自动化与 AI 智能体结合。他反思自己曾陷入“教程地狱”——花大量时间看 Reddit、Medium 和 YouTube 教程却不实操，认为真正掌握技能必须自己动手并反复失败。
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