There is a particular frustration every builder knows. The tool demands that you think about the tool — not the thing. Every click, every manual refresh, every time you leave the tool to type to some AI agent and copy-paste back the JSON just to have it break the workflow.
If Lovable is doing it, if Cursor is doing it — why can’t you just type or speak what you want and have AI do it for you in n8n? People want to choose their own AI coding tools — Codex, Gemini, Claude Code, or whatever comes next. In 2026, that’s the expectation. The contrast is hard to ignore. The pieces were already there, it was just a matter of putting them together.
Your friends kept asking for it. Take me back to that moment — what exactly did they want?
So it all started because I started seeing on Instagram and YouTube and different places a lot of people talking about n8n. Since I write software, I thought maybe this is not for me, this is for non-technical people. But eventually I gave it a try, and I thought, this is pretty cool, because instead of me having to write a lot of code manually, I could just have it as something visual and it was actually faster to deploy because I did not have to set up the environment, dependencies — it was simply a lot faster for certain situations.
But then I started to notice there was certain stuff that was a lot of point and click, and I think that is very slow. And I noticed that was an issue for a lot of other people, especially when ChatGPT came out, when Lovable came out — people were saying, we want something like Lovable, but for n8n. I saw some people doing something similar, but never anything that really made it functional.
And so I mentioned it to a few friends, and they were saying, Javier, that’s a great idea. I want it. Or I have someone that wants that, or I read on Reddit that people want that. So that’s where I thought, OK, let’s do it. Let’s try it out. I think that should be something fun to do.
What were you building when you first gave n8n a real shot?
What I thought was pretty cool with n8n was that we could build an AI agent that could connect to my email, understand it, read it, and maybe then send messages to WhatsApp. And I thought it was especially cool when MCPs started to come around. But it was a lot of clicks, and more complexity added a lot more nodes, and it was hard to break workflows apart or keep track of everything. Specifically adding logic that seemed natural in coding — like loops, or async calls, or even debugging and unit tests. I thought, people building n8n without that are a bit hand tied.
What breaks down exactly — when you hit that wall, what does it feel like?
When you need to debug, it’s very manual. You cannot just ask Claude, hey, what’s going wrong? Or if you want to create a new change or a new template, you would have to do it in Claude or OpenAI, copy and paste — and if you make a change, it’s not live in your UI, like what you would see with a React web page in Lovable. The process is not a nice UI, and that’s what I want to solve — that you have the same experience you would have with other tools.
What is n8nVibes exactly — what do you actually do differently with it?
So instead of drag and drop UI or having to update the workflows from the back end and hit refresh manually to see the changes — it just works like you would expect. Just think about it — you make a change in Cursor, you see it right away and you can undo it. Same in Lovable. So this is what a Lovable for n8n would look like, but using your own AI tool — Cursor, OpenAI, Claude Code, Gemini, Kimi, whatever you want. You choose. You bring your own LLM tokens.
What does success look like — how do you know it worked?
I don’t want to think even a year from now — I’m thinking very short term, like in a few months. I would like this to be a way for AI influencers to make money. I would like this for n8n users to have an easier life with tools. And I would like this to also be usable by other AI agents, like OpenClaw — if an agent needs to check or update an n8n workflow, it can do it very easily through this tool. What I would expect is that this helps people make their n8n life easier, just like it’s making mine easier.
The gap Javier is closing is simple to describe: every modern dev tool gives you live feedback, AI-assisted debugging, and control over your environment. n8n doesn’t — yet. n8nVibes is the layer that brings those expectations into n8n, without asking you to switch tools or learn a new paradigm. You bring your own LLM. It meets you where you are.
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Interviewed by Claude · February 2026 · 4 min read