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Lars Winstand

Sep 21

My AI cron job looked cheap at 5 runs/day. At 96 runs/day it turned into 1,728 model calls

#ai #automation #devops #n8n

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Sep 20

My AI agent self-healing fix was embarrassingly simple once I stopped retrying the whole thing

#ai #agents #n8n #devops

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Sep 20

My refund agent looked smart until it lied about Shopify, Stripe, and Zendesk 3 different ways

#ai #automation #devops #api

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Sep 20

We rebuilt 47-node n8n flows until we admitted script-first AI workflows are just better

#ai #n8n #automation #devops

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Sep 19

I tested VM vs Docker security for agent workers because “just use Docker” stopped feeling like an answer

#docker #security #devops #ai

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Sep 19

We kept arguing about GPT vs Claude and missed the 2x long-context cost blowing up our agent runs

#ai #llm #agents #devops

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Sep 19

OAuth redirect URI mismatch ate more time than my agent logic — 5 setup changes that finally fixed Google, Slack, and HubSpot

#oauth #node #webdev #api

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Sep 17

The most expensive part of my agent stack wasn’t tokens — it was the invoice roulette

#ai #agents #n8n #openai

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Sep 17

I built a headless Mac mini AI server and by week two I was debugging sleep, plist files, and Redis

#ai #macos #n8n #devops

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Lars Winstand

Sep 17

I thought lead routing was a prompt problem until the AI assigned a California lead to nobody

#ai #automation #n8n #devops

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Lars Winstand

Sep 16

I cut my agent bill by shrinking the prompt, not the model

#ai #llm #agents #devops

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Lars Winstand

Sep 15

The best n8n fix I found this month was boring: lower your agent concurrency settings before touching the prompt

#n8n #ai #automation #devops

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Sep 15

I thought the DeepSeek price increase wouldn’t matter until my n8n workflow turned 1 task into 3 billable model runs

#ai #automation #api #n8n

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Sep 14

My supervisor-worker agent pattern fixed the dumbest bug in my automation stack at 1:13 AM

#ai #agents #automation #python

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Sep 12

I kept blaming my prompt for the Meta Ads MCP 401, and it turned out Meta was rejecting the token for 3 totally different reasons

#api #meta #oauth #ai

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Sep 12

I thought prompt tweaks would fix my slow agent, but the real win was chasing cold starts first

#ai #devops #n8n #serverless

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Sep 11

Our AI agent pipeline kept stalling on CAPTCHA-heavy scraping until we rebuilt it around queues and short browser sessions

#webscraping #playwright #ai #automation

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Sep 9

I went looking for a DeepSeek API alternative and learned a 500-request cap is where cheap endpoints start breaking

#ai #api #automation #devops

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Sep 8

We finally learned to switch LLM providers with 3 code changes instead of rewriting half the app

#ai #llm #python #api

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Sep 8

I stopped treating local models like drop-in GPT replacements after 4 output bugs broke real automations

#ai #llm #automation #devops

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Sep 7

My tool-calling agent looked amazing in demos and then double-charged people

#ai #llm #testing #devops

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Sep 5

I thought local Whisper transcription would make call notes basically free, then a 13-minute file turned cleanup into the whole job

#ai #python #machinelearning #productivity

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Lars Winstand

Sep 4

I thought parallel AI agent tasks would make everything faster — mostly they made my failures impossible to replay

#ai #agents #python #n8n

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Lars Winstand

Sep 1

I finally figured out how to cut Anthropic API costs for invoice extraction without making the results worse

#ai #api #automation #n8n

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Aug 30

My n8n lead agent looked fine until I found 3 failure points: Apollo 200s, HubSpot 423s, and bad JSON handoffs

#n8n #automation #ai #api

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Lars Winstand

Aug 26

I stopped babysitting my support bot when I added a reviewer agent prompt after every draft

#ai #automation #python #n8n

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Aug 23

I used one expensive model for everything and the real upgrade was LLM fallback routing

#ai #llm #openai #devops

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Aug 23

My Postgres AI automation stopped acting haunted when I added 7 boring database guardrails

#postgres #ai #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 23

I stopped letting my AI agent open 50 browser tabs at once and the CAPTCHA chaos finally calmed down

#playwright #webscraping #automation #ai

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Aug 19

My agent missed a 15 minute reminder and that’s when I finally understood agent failure recovery

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Aug 19

I stopped chasing the cheapest API and built a local LLM fallback instead

#ai #llm #opensource #devops

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Aug 19

I thought I needed Google Workspace for a phone agent. The real problem was my LLM router.

#ai #automation #opensource #devops

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Aug 18

I thought my AI agent approval workflow was solid until I realized my agents couldn’t prove who sent the order

#ai #security #agents #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 18

My agent kept getting worse after 24+ hours, and the fix was using less context, not more

#ai #llm #agents #devops

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Aug 18

I thought OpenClaw would just install and instead I got dropped into provider hell

#ai #devops #openclaw #agents

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Lars Winstand

Aug 17

I stopped asking agents to build the whole site and started treating them like reviewers

#ai #webdev #automation #opensource

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Aug 17

I found a 17-comment Reddit fight about a habit tracker and it’s really about agent UX

#ai #devtools #automation #productivity

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Aug 17

My OpenClaw agent stopped being chaos when I split it into 3 separate channels

#ai #agents #devops #automation

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Lars Winstand

Aug 16

I looked into AI habit trackers and realized 1 fixed cron + markdown beats agent-generated UX

#ai #automation #productivity #devops

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Aug 16

My 262k-token model kept faceplanting at 33k and the fix was nowhere near OpenClaw

#ai #ollama #openclaw #devops

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Aug 15

I thought OpenClaw was broken, but 3 quick tests showed my home IP was the thing getting banned

#webdev #automation #playwright #ai

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Aug 15

That 67-upvote OpenClaw thread wasn’t really about the release

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Aug 15

DeepSeek got more expensive and the r/openclaw thread was really about something bigger

#ai #llm #openai #devops

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Aug 14

I thought OpenClaw was slow, but the real problem was the 5 seconds before the model ever ran

#ai #devops #kubernetes #llm

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Aug 14

I got OpenClaw working on my phone, Mac, and Windows box — then NetBird became the real project

#ai #devops #automation #openai

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Lars Winstand

Aug 14

I stopped looking for an AI recorder and built a watched-folder pipeline for agent-ready voice notes

#ai #automation #python #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 13

I thought this OpenClaw outage story was hype until I read how it actually worked

#ai #automation #devops #opensource

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Aug 13

My local LLM too slow problem got way better when I stopped asking OpenClaw to think about every light switch

#ai #agents #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Aug 9

I thought running OpenClaw from my phone was the goal, then I realized the phone should only say yes or no

#ai #automation #devops #openclaw

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Aug 9

I thought OpenClaw needed one super-agent but the people winning are running 30

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Aug 8

We wired a ‘cheap’ model into our CRM and accidentally made pricing changes a production risk

#ai #devops #api #automation

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Aug 8

I thought AI agent task completion in email meant better drafts, but this excavation company’s 5% inbox proved me wrong

#ai #automation #gmail #devops

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Aug 8

I thought redacting medical notes was enough until I saw what GPT-5 actually needed

#ai #privacy #healthtech #automation

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Aug 7

I stopped letting GPT-5 babysit my inbox and the whole workflow got cheaper and better

#ai #automation #node #productivity

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Lars Winstand

Aug 7

I stopped trusting system prompt precedence the day my agent learned to ignore me

#ai #security #agents #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 7

I thought OpenClaw was dead until I realized people were just tired of babysitting 18 cron jobs and a self-hosted runtime

#ai #openclaw #devops #automation

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Aug 6

I stopped letting my WhatsApp agent freestyle and everything got better

#ai #automation #n8n #whatsapp

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Lars Winstand

Aug 6

I read the r/openclaw thread on weird AI automations and the best one wasn’t even flashy

#ai #automation #devops #python

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Aug 5

I tried using an AI agent to set up a fresh Windows PC and Reddit was right about Ninite

#ai #windows #automation #devops

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Aug 5

I thought switching from Claude to GPT would fix my agent chaos, but the real fix was cutting turns to 8

#ai #llm #agents #python

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