01 / Field notes

Writing from the middle of shipping.

Notes from building AI systems that actually run. n8n agents, Claude Code, MCP servers, retrieval, evals, the parts nobody writes tweets about. 25 posts and counting.

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July 2026

n8n · AI agents

n8n AI agents in production, what actually breaks

Everyone can wire an OpenAI node to a webhook. Very few can keep it running for six months. Here is what falls over first, and how to build so it doesn't.

July 15, 20269 min read

Alex Cinovoj, TechTide AI

April 2026

n8n · Infrastructure

Self-hosting n8n at scale

Self-hosted n8n is cheap until the executions table hits forty gigabytes. Then it is a database job.

April 21, 202611 min read

Alex Cinovoj, TechTide AI

January 2026

n8n · Make · Zapier

n8n vs Make vs Zapier for AI automation

All three will demo an AI workflow in ten minutes. Only one of them is still cheap and debuggable at fifty thousand runs a month.

January 13, 202611 min read

Alex Cinovoj, TechTide AI