The Artificial Intelligence Show · Thursday, August 13, 2026
During an AI training session, Dan Slagan noticed his team felt overwhelmed by new AI builder tools. He addressed this by acknowledging the fear of falling behind and implementing a structured approach with coaches and a build-a-thon to gradually increase proficiency, dividing the team into tiers based on their adoption.
“Because within about 5 minutes, everyone's eyes had glazed over. And people were starting to look confused, bored, frustrated.”
“And my response to them was, this morning you didn't even know that this person existed. You didn't know that you are potentially interviewing against this person for your next role at Zapier or outside of Zapier.”
“And I gave the team three weeks. And I said, three weeks from now, I need everyone to be up and running on Cursor.”