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That is a lot of money! Seems like a great product, but for something that there is plenty of alternatives or players in a similar space, it is hard to see how this money wont be spent to just increase sales / AI push, which is not necessarily a good thing.

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It's also just not where the product needs to go. When a lot of users get frustrated and jump back to high-code environments (https://www.reddit.com/r/n8n/comments/1mcm9d2/why_i_left_n8n...), that points to high-friction and not enough control. Iterating in just AI for AI's sake isn't going to fix that.

Behold the cargo cult. DAGs are not new at all, and N8N doesn't haven't any "special sauce". Its AI integration is kind of a joke, since its similar to what my phone tacked on as "features": summarization and translation and visual style editing. For serious usage in an ML system, you want gradients and experiments to be run, and N8N is not that. It feels like systemd got reimplemented with a GUI and a lot of gaffer tape.

That's how I explained it to someone else recently - a lot of solutions on the hype train right now feel like they're made with duct tape and popsicle sticks.

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