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Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by todsacerdoti on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:57PM (#42882582)
You should add 2500 app integrations to Workflow86 via Pipedream Connect -- https://pipedream.com/connect
Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by no_wizard on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:01PM (#42883801)
I find humor that a product like this exists.

Not because it isn’t useful (to be honest it looks decidedly useful as an API aggregator service) but the fact that one of its main selling points is for “AI”.

Yet, if we had AI, it would be able to build these integrations itself

Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by taaron on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:33PM (#42884489)
AI building the integrations is the approach we are taking at the moment, to the extent that you can store credentials like API keys and Oauth and then make the AI aware of these via a variable like ${googleAPI.SECRET}.

These credentials can then be use in the API node (where the AI can write a custom curl) or the run code component (where the AI can write custom python or js code to make an HTTP request).

Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by no_wizard on Thursday January 30, 2025 @11:30PM (#42884708)
Can it automatically update themselves based on changes to the source API? Can it detect ahead of time if APIs have changed? How about understanding the API requirements?
Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by todsacerdoti on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:57PM (#42884582)
I encourage anyone who is curious to try to build an AI to get an approved client ID / secret from Google to access end user's gmail accounts. Most tier-one apps, such as Google, Zoom, Shopify, etc require a formal application process, third-party security reviews, and much more.
Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by no_wizard on Thursday January 30, 2025 @11:27PM (#42884693)
I think my point went over the head here, so to speak.

The fact is “AI” isn’t building these integrations because they aren’t capable. They’re capable of generating some sandbox code, if anything, but full scale integration, that updates itself as APIs change etc?

It’s simply not happening, because they don’t actually reason, because they lack actual intelligence

Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by kilroy123 on Friday January 31, 2025 @02:58AM (#42885537)
I tried. Wasn't even doing that much AI stuff. I spent 9 months building a product that is dead on arrival because they refuse to approve it.

I moved on to other things.

Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by taaron on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:02PM (#42882614)
Very interesting will definitely check it out!
Re:Show HN: An AI business analyst and process automation en... by csomar on Friday January 31, 2025 @02:09AM (#42885316)
Honestly I thought it was a joke or /s website at first. I looked at the site/docs and still don’t understand what your service is exactly selling/doing?