Everyone says low-code automation is easy until you're staring at a red error screen at 2 AM wondering why your "perfect" logic failed. Here's the red pill: n8n is only 40% of the work. The rest is the "hidden tax" of infrastructure, data flow, and permission hell that tutorials never show you. As they say, "One does not simply walk into complex automation."

We’ll talk about:

• The massive "Hidden Tax" of automation nobody warns you about
• Why skipping straight to AI Agents is a recipe for disaster (and what to do instead)
• The 3 essential Layers of Automation: Foundation, AI-Assisted, and Agents
• Why JSON and APIs are the real superpowers you need (it’s not magic, it’s data)
• How to stop acting like a builder and start thinking like a Process Engineer
• Escaping "Tutorial Hell" and focusing on boring ROI that actually pays the bills

Keywords:

n8n, automation, low-code, AI agents, workflow optimization, API integration, JSON, tech careers, process engineering, software architecture, AI Fire, operational friction, backend development.

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