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The Canary Workflow: A Fake n8n Job That Pages Me Before Clients Notice

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Part of my build-in-public series on running LLM workflows in n8n in production. This one is about the cheapest insurance I own: a workflow that does no useful work at all. Once an hour it pretends to be a client — calls the LLM, sends itself an email, hits my own webhook — and if any of it smells…

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  1. 2026-10-18 01:41 · DEV Community — AI
    The Canary Workflow: A Fake n8n Job That Pages Me Before Clients Notice

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