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Large language models can extract, classify, summarize, and write for us. They just can't execute those tasks on their own. Or not without some seriously cumbersome technical upkeep, anyway. For AI to do something in an app you use, a developer has to build a complex integration.
In context
- Topic: Low-Code y No-Code — Plataformas de bajo código, su gobierno y su deuda técnica.
- Source: Zapier Blog
- Published: 18/08/2026
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Why it matters
Low-code changed who is allowed to build, and that is the real story. When someone in operations can assemble their own flow without going through IT, the organisation gains speed and inherits a new problem: nobody knows how many of those flows exist or who depends on them.
My criterion for what to automate is simple: high volume, stable rules and bounded consequences when it goes wrong. When any of the three is missing, automation costs more than it saves and gets dismantled within eight months.
What usually goes wrong
What breaks these projects most is turnover. The flow was built by somebody who has left, they wrote nothing down, and now nobody dares touch it because they do not know what depends on what. It keeps running on inertia until it fails, and that day everyone discovers it was critical.
What to watch
- What happens when the system on the other side changes, because it will change without warning.
- Cost per run at real volume, which on these platforms scales fast and surprises people.
- How the flow reports failure, and to whom: without that, the error gets discovered by the customer.
How I read this entry
If this were adopted in an organisation, I would ask from day one for a simple register: which flows exist, who built them, which systems they touch, and who to call when they fail. It costs an afternoon to set up and avoids the scenario where nobody knows what broke.
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Living through this in your own team?
Open the chat and tell me how you're handling it. I'm interested in comparing notes.
