
n8n AI Workflow: 21 Brilliant Power Moves for Fail-Safe Automation
n8n AI workflow success comes down to one idea: your bots must talk like machines, not poets. Early on, I wired an LLM into a customer-support pipeline and felt invincible—until my database node choked on a heartfelt paragraph. Lesson learned. Since then, I’ve treated each n8n AI workflow like a factory line: reason, format, validate, then act. Clean data or no deal. Power Move #1 — Mindset shift: structure first, prose later Write like this on the whiteboard: “We produce JSON first.” In a n8n AI workflow, prose belongs at the edges (notifications, previews), never the core. Push the LLM to emit strictly typed objects, then build any human-friendly copy from those objects. This flips the default: no more...