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When a factory produces a bad widget, nobody repairs the widget. They throw out the batch and go ask what the machine is doing. That is Wade Foster's answer to what a PM job becomes once agents handle the work, and it was the moment he reached for the word transformative while grading a full PM agent stack on the episode. Set up agents for the spec, the prototype, the evals and the first draft of code, and your day stops containing any of those tasks. What is left is the diagnosis. The agent…
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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