Staring at a blank canvas, not even knowing which way to connect the first line — that’s probably every beginner’s first night. My advice is just one thing: don’t randomly wire things up, start straight from the built-in templates. The menu lets you browse a template library, and if you’re missing a model it’ll prompt you to download it — way less hassle than staring at a blank canvas.
I came over from writing code, and the more I use this the more it feels familiar. This node-based generation is basically a directed graph — each node is a program object, wire them together and data flows downstream, producing images, video, audio, even models and agents. Anyone who’s programmed before basically doesn’t need to be taught this structure.
What’s really powerful is the pile of custom nodes from the community — pretty much whatever feature you want to extend, someone’s probably already written it. That kind of building-block freedom is something traditional menu-and-button software just can’t give you.