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Designing an AI-Powered Automation System
Designing an AI-Powered Automation Systemby Jeff Humble Dear Reader, This week, I want to share something I use behind the scenes. I want to share something very nerdy that I've been working on π€ It's an automation system that I'm using to experiment with AI. If you've ever used a tool like Zapier, then you might like this sort of thing. I built it with Discord and Activepieces, and it's completely free. It looks like this: Here are some of the use cases:
If you've been having AI anxiety, I can tell you from personal experience fiddling with tools and automating stuff will make you feel better. And becoming the automation expert at your company certainly won't hurt your career!
This is a new type of content for this newsletter, so please comment or reply if you liked it! βSourceβ This AI tool called Relume is gaining popularity. It's interesting because it does for wireframing what Uizard does for high-fidelity mockups. With a simple prompt, you can generate a wireframe that will export into Figma or Webflow. Every aspect of the product design process seems to be slowly getting a dedicated AI tool. What do you think? Would you use a prompt-based AI tool to generate a wireframe or a sitemap?
Until next time! βοΈπ€
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