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Assistant or Agent: Building the Same Content Machine Three Ways

The author spent three months building an AI content machine for a Telegram channel, first manually with ChatGPT, then with n8n, and finally as a Python agent via Claude Code. The Python approach proved most compact and predictable, replacing a failed SaaS dependency within a day. The article details the architecture, real timings, and a checklist for choosing between assistants and agents.

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