Skanda's Blog

When you can't figure something and feel frustrated for the devs 😂

· Sai Skanda

A normal person gets frustrated that some code or tool is not working how they expected. probably leave angry reviews.

But me 😂 I feel the developer’s frustration… that they simplified and automated so much but yet I am unable to use it! How much more can they abstract away for me?

Take n8n and docker for example. It now takes less than 15 minutes to setup n8n, an MCP server and have a basic chat app up and running that can use the MCP’s context and tools.

I was facing this issue where the tools are all configured correctly, the correct API requests are being called but due to some annoyingly specific issue with how the authentication is being called, the responses are 200 but no useful data is returned, even though I provided Admin credentials to the MCP server.

Its easy to blame n8n or whoever built the MCP server that they missed one particular way the service was setup to authenticate but I keep thining “How much more could they have done? Can I not fix it myself?”

But usually I do not have enough experience so it just find and track similar issues reported or raise an issue if there is good community support.