Trigger.dev, N8N, and Make.com keep getting compared as competitors. They're not. They solve different problems at different layers of a SaaS stack, and the smartest approach uses them together.
Kieran Klaassen opened GitHub to review code and found Claude Code had already applied three months of feedback. This is compounding engineering - building systems where each iteration teaches the next one.
Conor Griffin's n8n tutorial builds three automations of increasing complexity, ending with an AI agent that manages calendars, emails, and custom workflows through natural language.