AI Agents, Clearly Explained in 40 Minutes | Wade Foster (Zapier)

Name: AI Agents, Clearly Explained in 40 Minutes | Wade Foster (Zapier)
Uploaded: 2025-10-26
Duration: 2222 s
Channel: Peter Yang
Description: Read a transcript preview of “AI Agents, Clearly Explained in 40 Minutes | Wade Foster (Zapier)” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-10-26.

Channel: Peter Yang

Uploaded: 2025-10-26

Duration: PT2222S

Read a transcript preview of “AI Agents, Clearly Explained in 40 Minutes | Wade Foster (Zapier)” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-10-26.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] Most people when they say I want an

[0:02] agent, you realize they actually just

[0:04] want a workflow like a just a

[0:05] deterministic automation. The

[0:07] reliability of these full systems is

[0:09] just not great for more complex tasks.

[0:11] And so the things that are most

[0:12] impressive today are kind of in like

[0:14] this AI workflow or aentic workflow

[0:16] world. Instead of me sitting down and

[0:18] like answering all these emails, what

[0:20] I'm going to be doing is talking to the

[0:22] agent and saying like what new

[0:24] instruction can I provide or what new

[0:25] guidance can I give it so that it does a

[0:27] better job. As cringe as the like CEO

[0:29] memo is around like we must use AI, I do

[0:32] think it's important. I think where CEOs

[0:34] often fail is that's they just kind of

[0:35] stop there and then they just expect the

[0:37] organization will sort of like magically

[0:39] figure out how to go use these tools.

[0:41] Best thing you can do is just

[0:45] Okay, welcome everyone. My guest today

[0:46] is Wade, co-founder and CEO of Zapier.

[0:49] Excited to get to demo how you can uh

[0:51] automate work and save time using

[0:52] Zapier's AI workflows and agents. uh

[0:56] talk about what the difference is even

[0:57] between workflows and agents and also

[1:00] talk about how Wade is making Zapier AI

[1:02] first and how he evaluates AI fluency

[1:04] with both employees and also people

[1:06] looking for a job. So, welcome Wade.

[1:08] >> Yeah, Peter, thanks for having me.

[1:09] >> All right. Um, so you know, everyone

[1:11] keeps talking about AI agents and uh but

[1:14] there's actually like a whole spectrum

[1:16] between workflows and agents. Do you

[1:18] mind like kind of walking us through

[1:19] thi