I wrote a PRD with ChatGPT and handed it to the CEO of Zapier to

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I wrote a PRD with ChatGPT and handed it to the CEO of Zapier to grade on camera. Wade Foster's first move was to separate two things I had merged. Part of the question was AI fluency. The other part was just whether the product thinking was any good, and he graded that first. The idea held up. Zapier's connector library wired into Claude Code, running deterministically on Zapier so you get better cost and accuracy. He said the intuition was savvy. Then he named the two gaps, and both are…

Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta1d ago

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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