Siddharth Iyer

Foodie. Football. Techie. Music. Travel. Fitness.

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@tejasghongadi Congratulations! 🎉

[Vivo @vivoplt]

- Claude for coding.
- Supabase for backend.
- Vercel for deploying.
- Namecheap for domain.
- Stripe for payments.
- GitHub for version control.
- Resend for emails.
- Clerk for auth.
- Cloudflare for DNS.
- PostHog for analytics.
- Sentry for error tracking.
- Upstash for Redis.
- Pinecone for vector DB.

You can literally launch a startup from your laptop and internet.

It’s not that deep.

[Sergio Pereira @SergioRocks]

Sam Altman is right about one thing:
- Writing software used to be harder.

But there’s an assumption hidden in that statement:
- That because it’s easier now, engineers matter less.

It’s actually the opposite.

AI made it easier to write code. It did not make it easier to build robust software systems.

If anything, it made it easier to build fragile ones.

Today you can generate:
- API integrations
- User interfaces
- Backend data flows
- Entire features

In hours.

But what happens when:
- The same request is processed twice
- Data arrives incomplete or out of order
- A dependency fails halfway through
- Real users behave in unexpected ways

That’s where software breaks.

It's not about the code. It's about how the system is architected.

And that’s where engineering experience shows up.

Understanding failure modes.
Designing for edge cases.
Building systems that don’t collapse under real usage.

AI didn’t remove the need for engineers. It removed the barrier to writing code.

Which means more systems will be built. And more of them will need to be designed properly.

The engineers who can do that are not less important. They are more critical than ever.

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@Globalstats_77 @Alpha_Prime__ @grok fact check

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@NoLimitGains @grok fact check this one please.

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@ManUtd I used to be a fan of this club.

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@themichaelowen @MoSalah @grok what is the context here

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@LentinGoodijk @grok share context in English please

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@MKBHD Nokia /HTC /LG era was more fun than the slab-fest today.

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[Nozz @NoahEpstein_]

Everyone in the automation space is feeding you the same bullshit.

"Go learn n8n from scratch"
"Master Make"
"Build 100 workflows to get good"

Then you spend 6 months becoming a drag-and-drop wizard and can't sell a single fucking thing.

Here's why:

You can't drop an n8n template into a business and expect it to work.

Automation isn't the hard part. Understanding the business is.

Most "automation experts" are just template copy-pasters who've never run a business or worked in operations. They don't understand:

• Where the actual bottlenecks are
• What's costing the business real money
• Whether a problem is worth solving
• How teams actually work day-to-day

So they build automations nobody asked for and solve problems that don't exist.

The intelligent gap in this space isn't technical skill.

It's business operations knowledge.

Alex Hormozi breaks it down perfectly:

"Are they demand constrained or supply constrained?"

• Demand constrained? They need more leads. Build them lead gen.
• Supply constrained? They can't fulfill. Build them backend automation.

That's it. That's the whole game.

But nobody teaches this because it's not sexy. It's easier to sell you a $997 course on "advanced n8n techniques" than teach you how to actually diagnose a business.

The people who are gonna win in automation aren't the ones who know every node in n8n.

They're the ones who can walk into a business, spot the 3 manual processes burning 20 hours a week, and fix them in an afternoon.

The technical part? That's the easy part.

Understanding what to build? That's where 90% of people fail.

Stop collecting workflows. Start understanding businesses.

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@SimslearnAi AI

[Paul Sims @SimslearnAi]

This AI Agent does full-stack SEO 🤯

Built in n8n:
📊 Analyzes GA4 + Rank + SERP
🧠 Crawls + Cleans FAQ
🔍 Tracks Competitor Keywords
✍️ Auto-rewrites articles
📈 Saves reports & performance

🔁 Like + RT
✅ Reply “AI”
🤝 Follow me & I’ll DM you the full workflow FREE

[Lumio @LumioIN]

Arc 5 Giveaway – Round 3

Help us come up with a catchy tagline for Lumio Arc or Vision.

Drop your answer in the comments. Retweet, and hit follow to qualify for the final round.

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@LumioIN Arc 5- Unlock your imagination

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@ElonMuskNews47 A

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@UtdFaithfuls Isn't Rio already tall enough?

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@LumioIN A discount code would also do, please :P