Disclosure
Cakir let go 50 people after automating manual scraping with Clay
“I've kind of let go about 50 people. And that's because we got a tool called clay, you know and suddenly we didn't have to do manual scraping and we didn't have to do manual copy paste from LinkedIn and so on.”
Insight
Cakir: Companies need external AI trainers because top-down mandates spark panic
“You got to get a third party trainer. You got to get somebody to come in and help you train your whole team. Because when it comes from the leader, it's like, oh shit, you know, my boss is telling me to use it. If I don't use it, I'm in trouble. If I use it we…”
Opinion
Cakir: AI is bigger than electricity and potentially fire
“So I think that AI is much bigger than electricity, potentially bigger than fire. And we haven't even understood it yet.”
Disclosure
Cakir replaced traditional CRMs with local Markdown files and Claude
“I don't have a CRM anymore. My CRM is Markdown files on my computer, right?”
Insight
Cakir: Full Automation Should Not Be Used With Large Language Models
“And I say semi-automate because I still don't believe in like when AI, when large language models are involved, I'm not into full automation yet.”
Insight
Cakir: Leaders amplify AI fear internally due to alarming media coverage
“I think that the leader is in fear, first of all, because of the news and what's happening outside. So they fear it and they're trying, like, they're kind of amplifying that fear internally. A lot of leaders, I'm not going to say all leaders, but a lot of them…”
Insight
Cakir: AI labs market through fear because negative news amplifies faster
“Good news positive news doesn't amplify. It doesn't travel very fast. But negative news and scary news, news full of fear travels very fast and it amplifies very fast. So how do you market yourself is by saying a hundred million jobs are going to get lost to m…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cakir predicts AI will fade into normal background infrastructure in 7-15 years
“I mean, I'd say around seven, 10, 15 max, you know”
Insight
Cakir: Document and Perfect Manual Workflows Before Deploying AI Agents
“I would say don't go agent building right away, build the document. Build a system, build a mirror board where you understand the whole flow and how that's been done. Make sure that there are no cracks in your process, in your SOP, in your system. You know, fi…”
Insight
Cakir: LLMs require deterministic code scripts for reliable document automations
“And then it's going to fail at sending agreements because it's non-deterministic. So what's going to happen is that none of the agreements are going to have the same kind of structure and it's going to be a mess and you're going to get all pissed off and you'r…”
Disclosure
Cakir conducts 90% of his daily work directly in the terminal
“90% of my work now is on the terminal, you know, and it's awful. It's just a bunch of texts in a black screen, you know, and it's like lots of texts going and it's really boring when you think about it, but I get very excited because it's achieving a lot of th…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cakir: Claude Code with n8n MCP automates 80% of workflow creation
“Now you have even cloud skills and Claude, so NA-TEN MCP that can build the NA-TEN automation for you. You know, you can kind of brainstorm with Claude and Claude code and they'll be like, great. Can you now use the MCP of NA-TEN and just build it? And it just…”
Assertion Supported
Cakir: Job listings now demand tools like Replit and Lovable
“There are job description now out there that it says, Hey, you know, we want you to be able to use replets for vibe coding for quick prototyping. You know, we want you to be able to use the, you know, lovable this, that X, Y, Z tools. So we're starting to see …”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cakir scaled his business to $200K solo before hiring
“So until the beginning of this year, I was on my own and I scaled the company to about 200 K on my own.”
