Like a Chicken with a Knife: Help Me Learn n8n & AI Agents! 🐔🔧

I just discovered the world of AI agents (better late than never, right? :sweat_smile:). I have no background in digital or tech, but I really want to start learning how to set up AI agents. The problem is… I feel like a chicken with a knife :chicken::hocho:.

n8n doesn’t seem too complicated compared to all the tools out there, but—just like the knife for the chicken—I feel like I might waste a lot of time just trying to figure out how to use it properly.

So here’s my question:
If you were starting from scratch like me, with no technical background, what would you focus on first? :thinking:
What skills or knowledge should I develop first to be able to build simple AI assistants?

The goal is to be able to create a few case studies and learn by doing :muscle:.
What do you think?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help! :pray:

I would recommend you start learning the platform first.
So do the n8n courses that are avaialble in the docs. After that you could start following some tutorials.

Thanks a lot for the advice! :pray:
I did find the documentation here: https://docs.n8n.io/ and I’m going to follow those courses as you suggested.

Once I’ve wrapped my head around all that, I was wondering — in your opinion, what are the key skills that will really help me build functional AI agents? :robot:
Are there any specific areas I should start learning in parallel while going through the n8n tutorials?

Thanks again for your help! :rocket:

Understanding the basics of n8n is very important before starting the AI learning.

I dont do anything with AI so sadly cannot help u there. :grin: