Every MLK weekend we go with a group of families to Great Wolf Lodge.

Every MLK weekend we go with a group of families to Great Wolf Lodge. An unexpected perk of that tradition is watching all the kids grow year over year.

The first year, this slide is too scary. The next year, the same slide is too boring.

I say all that to say — it was interesting to hear Brad Smith share what Zapier is doing to evolve the company in a world of AI. Hearing a new company share their ideas is one thing. Hearing it from a company you’ve known and used for 15 years is another. You need the same slide two years running to see how much the kid changed.

For me, the most useful part of the robots is building the giant markdown brain of connections. But when I show that to most people, they aren’t interested in a life of CLIs and .md files. What Zapier is building — and has built — seems like a bridge to that kind of connection.

Very cool.

PS: New room alert!