"The user of your software now is the agent." Wade Foster's read

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"The user of your software now is the agent." Wade Foster's read on where SaaS is heading, and it is the most concrete version of headless I have heard. His argument starts somewhere unexpected. Nobody ever wanted to log into your SaaS product and do data entry. Every tool of the last decade still had a human doing the work inside it. Zapier existed to remove that, except for one place, which was building the automation itself, where a human still had to sit down and click through…

Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta3d ago

Zapier grades every hire on AI fluency. Shopify and Meta put it in performance reviews. I asked CEO @wadefoster how you get the top rating, Transformative, then had him grade 3 of my projects live. Spoiler: you might not want it. 02:39 - How Zapier measures AI fluency 06:53 - Where most people should sit 11:23 - Who built Zapier's company brain 13:22 - Project 1: a ChatGPT doc 24:43 - Slop cannon or turbo brain 29:55 - Project 2: prototype + evidence 37:22 - Wade catches my fake data 38:03 - Project 3: a full agent stack 46:07 - Not everyone should build this 48:17 - Wade's robot staff 57:06 - Why Wade vibe coded a CRM 1:01:56 - Why the top rating is so rare 1:03:45 - Zapier, headless SaaS, rivals

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