Guillermo Rauch
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- Rauch says 60% of Vercel deploys are now agentic
Vercel's own docs see up to 83% of pageviews coming from agents, and Rauch says that share rises the more they optimize for them.
- Jack Ellis and Rauch push back on "software engineering is dead"
Two posts, one argument. The scarce thing is knowing when to stop.
- DHH says a language agents write badly is in trouble
Rauch agrees and says the old rule of picking what humans enjoy writing no longer holds.
- DHH had agents rebuild Campfire in Elixir, Go and Rust
Ruby came out slowest, and Guillermo Rauch says the old reason to ignore that result just stopped applying.
- Rauch says AI slop risks people discounting reading itself
The Vercel CEO says the damage from slop is not just bad code, it is that nobody trusts text anymore.
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- Rauch says Anthropic fell from 69% to 40% of Vercel spend
Two months of gateway spend data shows developer dollars moving fast, and open models taking about half of the difference.
- Grok 4.7 hits 94% on Next.js evals at 2x to 7x cheaper
Three models tie at the top, and the interesting number is the one underneath them.
- Jev is Vercel's fastest adopted model ever
Vercel put a number on the rush, and Guillermo Rauch thinks it says more about pricing than about the model.
- Rauch says the best part of the AI wave is everyone wants to build
One line, no numbers, and a claim about what people want from software right now.
- Rauch says open models hit 78.4% of Vercel gateway tokens
Moonshot AI and DeepSeek ranked third and fourth on spend, and Rauch says adding Z.ai pushes the group past OpenAI.
- Pigford ran 10,000 HN comments through Jev, 43% corrected
A new model spent a day on founder timelines, and the interest is about classification, not chat.
- Founders split three ways over Dario Amodei's AI letter
Capture, liability and open access are the three camps forming in the replies, and none of them agree on what happens to open weights.
- Shumer says one manager agent is enough, and his mom's closed $600
The founder says he runs hundreds of agents a day and still only needs one session that farms work out to the rest.
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