The future of work is built by everyone

The article argues that centralizing automation in a small specialist team becomes a bottleneck as a company scales, and that the ability to automate one's own repetitive work should become a normal part of how people work, much as spreadsheets did. It describes n8n's move toward a guild-like Automation team with reusable templates, office hours and documentation standards, while acknowledging the approach is still early and that regulated industries may legitimately keep build access centralized.