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SaaSykit Birthday SALE Last Chance 🎉, Overcoming AI Anxiety, My Take on Vibe Coding VS Agentic Engineering, The death of SaaS has been greatly exaggerated & more
Ahmad
April 26, 2026
Hey Makers 👋
The 20% anniversary deal for SaaSykit is about to expire ⏳
Over the past days, a lot of developers jumped in and grabbed the Complete package — and honestly, that’s been amazing to see.
If you’ve been on the fence, this is your window to get in before the price goes back to normal.
SaaSykit gives you a solid starting point with everything you’d otherwise spend weeks rebuilding — auth, billing, multi-tenancy, and all the SaaS essentials — so you can focus on actually shipping your product.
👉 Use code “SAASYKIT2YEARS” to get 20% off the Complete package while it’s still active.
Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Alright — let’s dive into what’s new in the Laravel & SaaS world 👇
From the Community
Anthropic published a very popular blog, Building Effective Agents, a research post describing the most useful patterns for building production AI systems. The patterns are practical, proven, and widely adopted.
Steve McDougall has released api-skill, a Claude Code skill that captures his production API conventions for Laravel 13+. Steve is well-known in the Laravel community for his work around API design, so this one is worth paying attention to.
The idea behind skills is that once installed, Claude Code picks them up automatically. Rather than explaining your preferred patterns at the start of every session, the skill keeps the agent on the same page across all your projects.
If you attended Laracon US this year, or if you're big into Livewire, you might already have heard about Blaze. Blaze is a new drop-in package (from the Livewire team, but it works on all Blade sites) that aims to dramatically optimize how Laravel renders Blade components. Think of it this way: even a simple <x-component /> tag carries runtime performance baggage, but Blaze can help us strip that baggage away.
Writing code pays my bills. It also happens to be a hobby that I was fortunate enough to turn into a career. The satisfaction of solving a problem, the concept of building something from nothing, the small wins that add up over time, the sense of accomplishment. That's what I enjoy.
For the longest time that felt like a stable foundation. If you could write good code and build solid software, there would always be a place for you somewhere.
If you spend some time around AI, coding assistants, and developer discussions, you'll probably hear two styles of building software being mentioned a lot: Vibe Coding and what I like to call Agentic Engineering.
At first glance, both can look similar because in both cases you're using agents, prompts, and a lot less manual typing. But in practice, they lead to very different results.
All about SaaS
Recent discourse in the tech industry argues that AI agents — replacing human workers and using APIs to access traditional SaaS tools — will force SaaS off the per-seat model. It’s one feature of the so-called SaaSpocalypse that suggests SaaS companies must reorient around outcome or usage-based pricing, or risk death. Ramp data shows that traditional SaaS vendors have not moved to a new pricing paradigm.
Everyone (I think?) agrees that defining your ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) is important.
It’s the thing that makes the whole company go around - marketing and sales build their entire personality around it, founders try to change it every week, and engineers nod while secretly thinking ‘this feels made up.’
Define your customer → build for them → grow. Easy. In theory.
AI is lowering the ceiling, squeezing the middle, and pulling out the floor. This is one of the biggest threats to company valuations. And it has completely changed how I am approaching new vendor contracts and renewals.
I am the signer on all our material vendor contracts so I am not only seeing this threat with our customers, but I AM the threat on the vendor side…
If you are infusing AI into your SaaS product, there is one finance mistake you cannot make:
Treat AI costs like traditional SaaS COGS.
The P&L math did not change. But the inputs changed.
That matters because the classic SaaS model was built on high gross margins and low marginal cost. Add AI inference costs, model-routing costs, vector database costs, and other AI infrastructure, and that margin profile can change fast.
SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60B. lol it’s just sad to watch this shit, Twitter was $44B. Like this has to be some scam I don’t understand. Nobody I know even uses Cursor any more.
In my opinion, opencode is legit the best coding agent. Not open source cope, like it’s actually number 1. And yes, it’s a good harness, but it’s not that hard to write something similar. opencode has a solid business model, let’s hope they don’t enshittify. The Claude Code source leaked and it was 10% agent, 90% spyware.
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