Jay Ayinla

Senior Engineer, Full Stack

Jay Ayinla is a senior full stack engineer on Zapier's engineering team. He builds Sidekick, an AI workspace that connects to more than 9,000 apps. He likes the hard questions that come with AI agents: design, cost, ethics, scalability, and user experience.

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Engineering insights
How much should an AI decide without asking you first?
How the Sidekick team rebuilt AI permission prompts three times, from asking about every tool to rules in plain English, and what we got wrong along the way.
By Jay Ayinla

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9 min read
Engineering insights
AI automation examples: 5 real things Zapier Sidekick has done
Five real stories from Zapier and its customers: deal breakdowns, out-of-office replies turned into contacts, 200 calendar invites, and more.
By Jay Ayinla

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4 min read

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