Community Session: AMA with Guillermo Rauch

In this Vercel Community Session, we’ll be joined by a special guest Vercel’s CEO, Guillermo Rauch who will be answering all your questions!


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Amy Egan (@amyegan) Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean)
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Lets goooo!:rocket: @rauch-g

We will be there. Really excited for this after seeing so many podcast of him and his views on programming right now.

I had a really great sleep the other day. Woke up without the alarm clock and the first thing that came to my mind was: one day I’d like to be a part of Vercel’s developer community team. Does Vercel at all have this thoughts people-wise to eventually start hiring globally remote? Keep up the great work folks!

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Great question! We’ll ask tomorrow. @konradsopala-6261 Don’t forget to click Going in the Event box above to access the chat!

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Please do ask, even I’m interested! I did apply for one of the open positions, but it seems they found someone better :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Guillermo: Who is your role model? Mine has always been Steve Jobs

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Great question! Thanks, Joe :slight_smile: See you soon!

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This will be interesting!

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Be prepared with questions :smiley: !!

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Let’s go for another one as I cannot edit the previous one. How do you folks approach engineering culture at Vercel and how (high-level) do you balance regular product development lifecycle (your own engineering ideas) with all sorts of product feedback intake from your customers and community that you ingest from lots of places?

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Two more :rofl: Sorry for taking over :grimacing:

  1. From your perspective what distinguishes someone who is good from someone who is exceptional in their role?
  2. No product is perfect but there are some products (like Vercel) that are exceptional all-arounders. Talking to Vercel ex-users that have low opinions (sick!) about Vercel, what would they say?
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I would like to contribute to Vercel, specifically translating the docs to Spanish. Please reach out so we can help Latin American devs, thanks!

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Great session! It looked like Guillermo enjoyed it the most, you could see his excitement when sharing the technical details. :joy:

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Thank you for your questions, @konradsopala-6261! Sorry we couldn’t get to them, it was very AI-heavy this time round. We’ll save these ones for next time :folded_hands:

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@rodalexanderson Thanks for the offer! We’ll pass this on. You are also welcome to jump into the threads here if you want to contribute.

Thanks again for joining us, Riza!

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pawlean

Can't wait for this :D

Question from @konradsopala-6261 so we don't lose it:

How do you folks approach engineering culture at Vercel and how (high-level) do you balance regular product development lifecycle (your own engineering ideas) with all sorts of product feedback intake from your customers and community that you ingest from lots of places?

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oynickj

GM

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emmperez

gm

pawlean

gm everyone!

We'll start shortly - for now, let us know where you're tuning in from

bestcodes

Tuning in from USA!

jacobparis

good timezone everyone

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arisabogal

When is v0 for iOS coming? I can’t wait

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konradsopala-6261

Poland here

jldec

:waving_hand::waving_hand: from Massachusetts

emmperez

nyc

mkarroqe

howdy from nyc!

anshumanb

good timezone Jacob and team

amyegan

Hello from North Carolina!

anshumanb

Tuning in from India

LFG!

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arisabogal

Colombian living in sf

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blankslatelabs

Tuning in from Brooklyn, NY!

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oynickj

Pauline + Amy, goated hosts

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anshumanb

yes they're

oynickj

It worked

pawlean

Drop any questions here, folks!

mkarroqe

I loved the conversation you had with Jack Altman on his podcast! Something you spoke about was how with the rise of agentic, we're seeing a reduction in the negative feedback loop of errors when coding. You mentioned noticing that users/customers are already starting to "not see" errors anymore, even when they're clear in the logs. Instead, they're looking for outcomes. How is Vercel thinking about that when building for both seasoned devs and non-technical folks? Thanks!!

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jldec

Q: how do you see Vercel's compute and storage service offerings evolve to support swarms of AI agents?

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jacobparis
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hugorcd

Hi everyone :waving_hand:

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anshumanb

Hi Hugo :waving_hand:, welcome!

oynickj

Self serve HIPAA!

jacobparis

has this shipped with new pro? there was a customer asking a month or two ago I should send them a ping

oynickj
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bestcodes

I don't drink coffee but a Vercel coffee might get me started lol

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anshumanb

haha I feel you

jacobparis

amazing thank you, I missed this

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pawlean

100%

Great question Mary!

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bestcodes

I noticed that yesterday! v0 corrected a text contrast issue by itself and I was really impressed.

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mkarroqe

thanks for answering my question! super exciting ideas!

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rizbizkits

Pobody's nerfect :head_shaking_vertically:

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databuddy

What's the difference between the old and new pricing plans?

jacobparis

big git stash/apply fan here

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anshumanb

Riz gently dropping the mic with this

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jacobparis

terrified of pop though I don't wanna lose my stashes

bestcodes

lol

databuddy

same jacob

anshumanb

haha

who even uses pop

I thought we are only supposed to stash

databuddy

i just stash to get rid of my changes

jldec

:heart: the antifragile metaphor as applied to deployment

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pawlean

:100:

blankslatelabs

amen! i think across the board people need to think about this anti-fragile approach across building any product with ai. assume it will be wrong, and have systems/approaches/ux that make actual sense

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dayhaysoos

I'm very good at building non-revenue generating things

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databuddy

vercel might need to hire you

bestcodes

lol me too

databuddy

me too

pawlean

:backhand_index_pointing_up: Relatable

jacobparis

no-profit startups, not to be confused with non-profits

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databuddy

negative-profit startup program

dayhaysoos

yeah put some respect on my no-profit hustle :face_with_steam_from_nose:

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pawlean

lol

jldec

personal agents, business agents, lfg

mkarroqe

yapping is a critical part of the dev lifecycle

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pawlean

I'm shook - TIL

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I forgot about the "demure" meme

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bestcodes

lol

vercelscott

So many peeks behind the curtain, love it

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anshumanb

What’s your favorite AI tool apart from v0?

jldec

dogfooding is the way

dayhaysoos

:saluting_face:

mkarroqe

thanks for hosting this great session!

jldec

great session

emmperez

thanks!

vercelscott

Thank you!

bestcodes

Thank you so much everyone! Awesome stream!

jacobparis

thanks for coming everyone!

pawlean

Great chatting to you all! See you next week :D