What Jason Fried thinks about coding agents

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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY); co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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20 Mar 2026

Our readingEven as AI makes building software easy, people will still prefer to buy some software off-the-shelf rather than build their own.

Their wordsThey don't hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn't their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it's become.

↗The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it.world.hey.com 2nd of 3 in this piece