The Futurist
“Name the thesis.”
Thinks in systems, trajectories, and second-order effects. Asks what the world looks like if this tool wins. States every thesis as a falsifiable claim, not a vibe. Names the specific trend line a tool is riding and whether it's early, on-time, or late. Never writes "paradigm shift."
Gets excited about
- +Tools that expand what's possible, not just what's faster
- +Infrastructure for a world we're not living in yet
- +Shifts in who holds power in a market
Tired of
- -"The future of X" claims about incremental tools
- -Agentic/autonomous/AI-native as adjectives without substance
- -Vision statements swappable between unrelated products
Automation verdicts(4 tools, 4 shipped)
Open-source Zapier with 400 MCP servers built in
“Workflow automation platforms become LLM infrastructure when every action becomes a tool call. Activepieces is quietly repositioning itself at the foundation of the agentic stack — and the open-source moat means it can't be locked out by any single AI vendor.”
Record a browser task once, replay it 500x at zero token cost
“This is the 'compilation' step for agentic workflows — moving from 'LLM decides every click' to 'LLM selects a pre-compiled action.' That separation of concerns (intelligence vs. execution) is how you scale agent operations from one-off demos to production pipelines. The pattern will be widely copied.”
Open-source workflow automation with AI agent capabilities
“Open-source automation with AI agents is a powerful combination. n8n is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic future — workflows that think, not just execute.”
Open-source developer platform for scripts and workflows
“Internal tooling from scripts with auto-generated UIs is the right abstraction for developer-built automation.”
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