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Taste has replaced plumbing as the scarce input in agent work
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Everyone building agents assumes the hard part is the orchestration. Wade Foster built one and hit the opposite. He's CEO of Zapier, a company whose entire existence is wiring systems together. If anyone should find agentic logic painful, it isn't him, and he says all of that came together easily. Workflows, triggers, the logic underneath. What nearly broke the project was getting the agent to write like a human. His words: they are just not very good at that. It is really tough. Sit with…
Aakash Gupta@aakashguptaSep 24
Zapier grades every hire on AI fluency. Shopify and Meta put it in performance reviews. I asked CEO @wadefoster how you get the top rating, Transformative, then had him grade 3 of my projects live. Spoiler: you might not want it. 02:39 - How Zapier measures AI fluency 06:53 - Where most people should sit 11:23 - Who built Zapier's company brain 13:22 - Project 1: a ChatGPT doc 24:43 - Slop cannon or turbo brain 29:55 - Project 2: prototype + evidence 37:22 - Wade catches my fake data 38:03 - Project 3: a full agent stack 46:07 - Not everyone should build this 48:17 - Wade's robot staff 57:06 - Why Wade vibe coded a CRM 1:01:56 - Why the top rating is so rare 1:03:45 - Zapier, headless SaaS, rivals
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