DISPATCH 21 · FRANKFURT
Bart Veldhuizen, Community Lead, n8n
FRANKFURT — At No-Code Week 2026, n8n's community lead explains why handing your bank credentials to an AI agent is still a terrible idea — and how the company is racing to build an AI workflow builder that rivals what users already get from Claude.
On the ground with
Bart Veldhuizen has been building communities for over 20 years, starting with Blender in the early 2000s. He joined n8n as a user, then became community lead. Now he runs a team of six, with a seventh on the way. His view spans open-source culture, commercial community strategy, and the collision of no-code automation with AI agents.
What we covered
00:00 The arc of community building — from Blender to n8n
03:43 MCP server overhaul and the "Instance AI" workflow builder
05:58 Why builders are bypassing n8n and using Claude to write workflows
09:15 AI agents vs. traditional automation: observability is the difference
11:43 A self-learning Gmail assistant, vibe-coded in one weekend
24:31 From 35 to 175 ambassadors, and the path to 1,000
From the notebook
- n8n: https://n8n.io
- Blender: https://www.blender.org
- Claude Code: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): https://modelcontextprotocol.io
- No-Code Week : nocodeweek.io
Find Bart
Next stop
No-Code Week wraps with a hackathon. Results in the next dispatch.
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