I’ve been experimenting with this idea of describing what I want to automate in plain language and having the system build it for me. Sounds almost too good to be true, right? But I’m genuinely curious whether this works in practice or if it’s just marketing speak.
The concept is that you write something like “every time I get an email from my boss, save the attachments to Google Drive and send me a Slack notification” and the tool generates a workflow that actually does that. With some platforms, you can apparently tweak the generated workflow by adding JavaScript customizations if something isn’t quite right.
I’m not asking for perfection on the first try—I know that’s unrealistic. But I want to know if anyone’s used this successfully for moderately complex workflows. Like workflows with conditional logic, error handling, that kind of thing.
Does the AI actually understand context well enough? Or do you spend more time editing and fixing the generated workflow than you would have building it manually from scratch?