Weekend Reading List — 28/03/2026
Have a great weekend.
Links
“Basecamp becomes agent accessible” - DHH. One of the most interesting ideas of the “agentic” age IMO is this notion of headless or permissionless-integrations. This was the promise of the “/API” era but in reality, it was never that easy to create net-new integrations and build workflows to use these. No/low-code solutions were a great start, but often neither composable or intuitive enough. Agents as it turns out, are the killer app for this use case. Making it easier for agents to use your product (as outlined in this piece), and then interface with other products, feels exactly where the puck is going for SaaS products.
“Rectangles Are Losing Their Monopoly” - Dec Kickham. This piece captures that weird “uncanny valley” of AI tools where the tech can mind-blowing but the primitives are still lagging behind (is it really always going to be chatbots?), or more accurately, just not all established yet.
“The age of vertical models is here” - Eoghan McCabe. Very interesting read on model specialisation, the case for vertical models (i.e. open weight models + post-training), and what this all means for the frontier labs and the huge lead they have today. I particularly like this framing that, for so many general purpose tasks, frontier models are actually “over-serving” the market (you don’t need gpt-5 to write a cover letter), but open-weight models could be so much more powerful (not to mention cost-effective) for vertical use cases by adding in domain-specific post-training and context.